On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 4:54 PM, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Right now my understanding is that origin xattr is created for all copied > up files if index=on. And if index=off, then we create it for all type > of files except hardlinks (nlink != 1). > > With metadata only copy up, I will still require origin xattr to copy up > data later, so create it even for hardlinks even with index=off. This doesn't look right. Without index we can't do hard links properly, doing metacopy in that case will complicate the situation further and can result in weirdness (e.g. two files that have different attributes but same inode number). So I think we should either require index for metacopy, or disable metacopy only for nlink != 1 files, but otherwise enable it even in case of index=off. 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
