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Subject[PATCH 06/42] Unionfs: documentation about renaming operations
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Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
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Documentation/filesystems/unionfs/rename.txt | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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+Rename is a complex beast. The following table shows which rename(2) operations
+should succeed and which should fail.
+
+o: success
+E: error (either unionfs or vfs)
+X: EXDEV
+
+none = file does not exist
+file = file is a file
+dir = file is a empty directory
+child= file is a non-empty directory
+wh = file is a directory containing only whiteouts; this makes it logically
+ empty
+
+ none file dir child wh
+file o o E E E
+dir o E o E o
+child X E X E X
+wh o E o E o
+
+
+Renaming directories:
+=====================
+
+Whenever a empty (either physically or logically) directory is being renamed,
+the following sequence of events should take place:
+
+1) Remove whiteouts from both source and destination directory
+2) Rename source to destination
+3) Make destination opaque to prevent anything under it from showing up
+
--
1.5.2.2


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