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From: "J. R. Okajima" <hooanon05g@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Overlayfs reverse mapping
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 03:44:21 +0900
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To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
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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