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From: hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp
To: Valerie Aurora <vaurora@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>,
	Scott James Remnant <scott@canonical.com>,
	Sandu Popa Marius <sandupopamarius@gmail.com>,
	Jan Rekorajski <baggins@sith.mimuw.edu.pl>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov@gmail.com>,
	Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Union mounts/writable overlays design
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:19:14 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7347.1255324754@jrobl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091011014339.GB12667@shell>


Valerie Aurora:
> In writable overlays, every directory will be copied up to the top
> writable overlay, so /u and /u/usr will both have the same st_dev.
> The copy up happens on lookup, so a stat() will trigger this copy up.
> A directory and a regular file in it will have different st_dev's,
> though.  Can you foresee any problems with that?

You're right.
I was confused with another implementation of UnionMount, sorry.
I think I had to sleep well.


J. R. Okajima

      reply	other threads:[~2009-10-12  5:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-01 14:55 [RFC] Union mounts/writable overlays design Valerie Aurora
2009-10-01 15:47 ` kevin granade
     [not found] ` <7004b08e0910010838i6d0a5f5xeed699be686f6906@mail.gmail.com>
2009-10-01 17:15   ` Valerie Aurora
2009-10-01 17:55     ` Jan Blunck
2009-10-01 20:08       ` kevin granade
2009-10-02 19:15         ` Valerie Aurora
2009-10-01 18:49 ` Brad Boyer
2009-10-02 15:30 ` hooanon05
2009-10-11  1:43   ` Valerie Aurora
2009-10-12  5:19     ` hooanon05 [this message]

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