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    SubjectRe: [RFC 12/26] ext2 white-out support
    On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 07:58:49PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
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    > On Jul 31 2007 12:36, Josef Sipek wrote:
    > >[2] http://www.filesystems.org/unionfs-odf.txt
    >
    > >Instead, the new ODF code stores whiteouts as hardlinks to a special
    > >(regular) zero-length file in odf (/odf/whiteout), and it stores opaqueness
    > >information for directories in the inode GID bits in an ODF file system
    > >(e.g., ext2, XFS, etc.) on the local machine. This avoids the name-space
    > >pollution and avoids races with network file systems, while minimizing inode
    > >consummation in /odf.
    >
    > Inode GID bits - are you reducing my 32 bits of gid_t to 31 bits?
    > That does not work out either.

    No. The ODF code just uses the GID bits to store extra info. The GID is
    _NOT_ used to store the GID of the file. The GID of the file is still coming
    from the branches.

    Josef 'Jeff' Sipek.

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