Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751307Ab1FTAn7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Jun 2011 20:43:59 -0400 Received: from mail04-md.ns.itscom.net ([175.177.155.114]:34311 "EHLO mail04-md.ns.itscom.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750717Ab1FTAn5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Jun 2011 20:43:57 -0400 From: "J. R. Okajima" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] overlay filesystem: request for inclusion To: Michal Suchanek Cc: Miklos Szeredi , Alan Cox , Valerie Aurora , Andrew Morton , NeilBrown , viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, apw@canonical.com, nbd@openwrt.org, jordipujolp@gmail.com, ezk@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu In-Reply-To: References: <20110609125114.8dff08da.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20110610100143.28037551@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <8739jbjqa7.fsf@tucsk.pomaz.szeredi.hu> <11186.1308148376@jrobl> <87vcw7hz7y.fsf@tucsk.pomaz.szeredi.hu> <15402.1308154495@jrobl> <18273.1308192226@jrobl> <12737.1308237353@jrobl> Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 09:43:48 +0900 Message-ID: <6167.1308530628@jrobl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 636 Lines: 24 Michal Suchanek: > Is there any reason why a directory cannot be whiteout? Just to reduce consuming inodes. > It may possibly hide a XXXXXXXX file if it is later added to the lower layer. No, because it is "doubly" whiteouted. > Just as whiteout has totally different file-type from a file. It's > specific to the union. Ok, we are talking about different whiteouts. J. R. Okajima -- 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/