Re: [RFC][PATCH] ovl: opaque xattr should overrule redirect xattr

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On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 11:18 PM, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> opaque xattr and redirect xattr are not expected to be both set on the
> same directory, but in case they do, the opaque directive to stop
> merging lower dirs should overrule an absolute redirect directive to
> escape a pure directory.
>
> This change comes with a cost of removing the optimiaztion for not
> checking opaque xattr on lookup in last parent layer.
> Instead, it adds an optimization for not checking opaque nor redirect
> xattr on lookup in overlay instance lowermost layer.

AFAICS this one's obsoleted by Vivek's "ovl: Set d->last properly
during lookup", so using that one.

Thanks,
Miklos
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