Re: [PATCH v5 2/4] ovl: allocate anonymous devs for lowerdirs

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On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 5:41 PM, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 10:27:25PM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote:
>> From: Chandan Rajendra <chandan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> For stat(2) on lowerdir non-dir entries in non-samefs case, this commit
>> provides unique values for st_dev. The unique values are obtained by
>> allocating anonymous bdevs for each of the lowerdirs in the overlayfs
>> instance.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Chandan Rajendra <chandan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> [amir: rename to struct ovl_layer lower_layers and struct ovl_path]
>
> Hi Amir,
>
> Would it make sense to do all the renaming in a separate patch. It becomes
> much easier to review this patch then. May be renaming can go first and
> then anonymous bdev patch can come in.
>

Sounds good. I'll do it.
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