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From: "J. R. Okajima" <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/38] fallthru: ext2 fallthru support
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Bodo Eggert:
> Do a hardlink if you can create a hard link, otherwise use a fresh inode
> and use that for the next hardlink(s).

Exactly.
That's the approach aufs takes for whiteout and its brothers.


J. R. Okajima
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