beginners project: RENAME_WHITEOUT

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Sat Nov 8 00:40:33 CST 2014


On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 04:59:49PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 11/7/14 1:09 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > The overlayfs merge introduces a new rename flag to create to whiteouts.
> > Should be a fairly easy to implement.
> > 
> > Miklos, do you have any good documentation and/or test cases for this?
> 
> FWIW, Carlos just expressed some interest today in doing this, and it
> builds on his earlier patches, yes?

It's in the same area, but not otherwise related.  But I'd be happy if
he picks it up.



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