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From: "J. R. Okajima" <hooanon05g@gmail.com>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>,
	"linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Overlayfs reverse mapping
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 03:44:21 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5399.1492800261@jrobl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJfpegv7kR-zDaE2wfD5e=_yUVnxDLMe28okMm3tTrURjLT1XQ@mail.gmail.com>

Miklos Szeredi:
> OTOH lost+found is just a plain old directory that is handled by
> userspace tools only.  No kernel fs driver treats /lost+found
> specially.  So putting this in upperdir would be a namespace pollution
> issue and generally we'd like to avoid that.  Aufs has lived with that
> sort of thing, and probably it wouldn't be a problem in practice.  But

??
As far as I know, aufs doesn't handle lost+found specially, but the
layer fs handles. What is the "namespace pollution" you call?


J. R. Okajima

  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-21 18:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-19 11:34 Overlayfs reverse mapping Amir Goldstein
2017-04-19 13:15 ` Miklos Szeredi
2017-04-20  9:22   ` Amir Goldstein
2017-04-21 13:24     ` Miklos Szeredi
2017-04-21 18:44       ` J. R. Okajima [this message]
2017-04-21 19:04         ` Amir Goldstein
2017-04-21 19:34           ` J. R. Okajima
2017-04-21 19:42             ` Amir Goldstein

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