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

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On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 1:19 PM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>


Correct.
Thanks,
Amir.
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