Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763933AbXHAR7H (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Aug 2007 13:59:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761320AbXHAR6w (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Aug 2007 13:58:52 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:38029 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761586AbXHAR6v (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Aug 2007 13:58:51 -0400 Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 19:58:49 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Josef Sipek cc: Jan Blunck , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Bharata B Rao Subject: Re: [RFC 12/26] ext2 white-out support In-Reply-To: <20070731163656.GC22350@filer.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> Message-ID: References: <20070730161323.100048969@weierstrass.suse.de> <20070730161324.261652101@weierstrass.suse.de> <20070731163656.GC22350@filer.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 841 Lines: 23 On Jul 31 2007 12:36, Josef Sipek wrote: >[2] http://www.filesystems.org/unionfs-odf.txt >Instead, the new ODF code stores whiteouts as hardlinks to a special >(regular) zero-length file in odf (/odf/whiteout), and it stores opaqueness >information for directories in the inode GID bits in an ODF file system >(e.g., ext2, XFS, etc.) on the local machine. This avoids the name-space >pollution and avoids races with network file systems, while minimizing inode >consummation in /odf. Inode GID bits - are you reducing my 32 bits of gid_t to 31 bits? That does not work out either. Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/