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From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Cc: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: unionfs
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 15:00:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40575CCE.4050905@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200403161919.i2GJJIED007767@eeyore.valparaiso.cl

Horst von Brand wrote:

> OK, let's see... I've got a laptop, on CD is the "original" kernel tree, on
> HD is my modified stuff. I delete a file (or move it). Then I pack up, go
> home. There I start up again. How is the fact that the file is gone recorded?

If I recall, directory inodes list the files in that directory. 
Presumably you had to write to the directory inode to do the delete. 
The new version of the directory is now stored on the HD.  It lists the 
original files on the CD, minus the one that was deleted.

Chris




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  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-16 20:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-15 11:35 unionfs Carsten Otte
2004-03-15 12:19 ` unionfs Jörn Engel
2004-03-15 12:47   ` unionfs Ian Kent
2004-03-15 13:16     ` unionfs Jörn Engel
2004-03-15 14:35       ` unionfs Ian Kent
2004-03-15 16:13         ` unionfs Jörn Engel
2004-03-15 17:09           ` unionfs Claudio Martins
2004-03-15 19:22           ` unionfs Horst von Brand
2004-03-15 23:20             ` unionfs Chris Friesen
2004-03-16 16:04               ` unionfs Horst von Brand
2004-03-16 17:31                 ` unionfs Jörn Engel
2004-03-16 18:04                   ` unionfs Jörn Engel
2004-03-16 19:40                     ` unionfs Horst von Brand
2004-03-16 20:45                       ` unionfs Jörn Engel
2004-03-16 19:19                   ` unionfs Horst von Brand
2004-03-16 20:00                     ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2004-03-23  2:38                   ` unionfs Robert White
2004-03-15 23:52             ` unionfs Jörn Engel
2004-03-16 16:18               ` unionfs Horst von Brand
2004-03-16 17:10                 ` unionfs Jörn Engel
2004-03-19  9:11                   ` unionfs Jamie Lokier
2004-03-19  9:42                     ` unionfs Jörn Engel
2004-03-19  9:04                 ` unionfs Jamie Lokier
2004-03-16 19:03             ` unionfs Andy Isaacson
2004-03-15 14:37       ` unionfs Ian Kent
2004-03-15 16:15       ` unionfs Jörn Engel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-03-08  9:52 unionfs Miklos Szeredi
2004-03-08 16:10 ` unionfs Bernd Schubert
2004-03-09  9:38   ` unionfs Miklos Szeredi
     [not found] ` <20040311151343.GA943@escher.cs.wm.edu>
2004-03-11 15:44   ` unionfs Miklos Szeredi
2004-03-14  2:33     ` unionfs Ian Kent
2004-03-14  4:20       ` unionfs Horst von Brand
2004-03-16 12:42       ` unionfs Miklos Szeredi
     [not found]     ` <20040315214207.GA26615@escher.cs.wm.edu>
2004-03-16 13:43       ` unionfs Miklos Szeredi
2004-03-12 23:37 ` unionfs Herbert Poetzl

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