On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 10:38 PM, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Miklos, > > This series is complementary to the whiteouts expose patches. > Patch 2 restores origin xattr on lookup of merge dir (that was copied up > before v4.12). > Patch 3 sets a 'null' origin fh on dir if we happen to iterate an 'impure' > dir and find a whiteout while looking for copy ups. This is expected to > happen if merge dir was copied up before v4.12, but files inside it were > copied up after v4.12. Applied 1/3. Does the other two patches have any real usecase? AFAICS this is not fixing a backward compatibility issue, so I'm sceptical of the value. Even if there was a real usecase, we could introduce an "fsck.overlay" utility that would fix up overlays to be able to take advantage of new features. Thanks, Miklos -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-unionfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
