Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Jan 1998 18:39:22 -0500 (EST) | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: Overlay writable filesystem over r/o partition [long] |
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On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: ... > About the only ugly part of BSD's unionfs is that it requires libc > support to avoid duplicate names from readdir(). The problem with doing > this in the kernel is that it's really hard to have the kernel throw out > duplicate names. (You can do it, but it would require lots of memory > allocations, which you'd really rather not do in the kernel.)
That's the issue I found depressing last time I looked at doing unionfs (a natural extension/replacement of the loopback filesystem)... So consider the challenge accepted. ;-) I need to brush up on the new dentry code anyways.
-ben
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