On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 5:40 PM, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > With the 'verify' feature enabled, when overlay inode nlink drops to > zero, instead of removing the index entry, replace it with a whiteout > index entry. > > This is needed for NFS export in order to prevent future open by handle > from opening the lower file directly. Just thinking out loud: how could we get rid of index whiteouts in the "rm -rf" case? Only way is if encoding parent as well, and we recursively check for a whiteout in the ancestors. Probably not worth bothering with in the first version, but later maybe? 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
