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Subject: Re: [fuse-devel] delta filesystem prototype
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Miklos Szeredi:
> The most interesting is the directory and metadata deltas, which do
> make a delta-fs like implementation much more effective and nicer as a
> dumb union type filesystem.  Mind, unionfs and aufs are rapidly
> acquiring non-union traits, like inode number storage, virtual hard
> links (not to speak of whiteouts).  Which makes them all the more
> hackish, I much prefer a conceptually clean solution.

I agree that the delta is a good approach. But it is for filedata only.
As I wrote in another mail, how do you support hardlinks on the lower
readonly layer?


J. R. Okajima