| Date | Mon, 8 Jan 2007 13:29:47 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 05/24] Unionfs: Copyup Functionality |
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On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 23:12:57 -0500 "Josef 'Jeff' Sipek" <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu> wrote:
> From: Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu> > > This patch contains the functions used to perform copyup operations in unionfs.
What is a copyup operation and why does it exist?
It seems to be copying the entire contents of certain files. That's not a thing I'd have expected to see in a union filesystem. Explain it all, please? (Somewhere where the info will be retained for posterity - a random email is good, but not sufficient...) - 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/
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