Re: GSoC 2013: unionfs rewrite

Matthew Dillon <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.dragonfly-bsd.kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
:Hey,
:
:I'm thinking about making a proposal for the unionfs project.
:
:On the subject of whiteouts, I've done some digging, and found this
:message from a few years ago:
:
:http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/kernel/2011-04/msg00005.html
:
:Matthew Dillon mentions that files with special suffixes could be used to
:represent deleted files. Various unionfs implementations on Linux
:seem to do something pretty similar with special files on the writable
:filesystem.
:
:Would there be any objections to handling deletions this way, at least
:to start with?
:
:Thanks,
:
:C Davis
:jabber/xmpp - [email protected]

    No objections at all.  I think that's a good way to handle it.

					    -Matt
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