Messages in this thread | | | From | hooanon05@yahoo ... | Subject | Re: [RFC] Union mounts/writable overlays design | Date | Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:19:14 +0900 |
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Valerie Aurora: > In writable overlays, every directory will be copied up to the top > writable overlay, so /u and /u/usr will both have the same st_dev. > The copy up happens on lookup, so a stat() will trigger this copy up. > A directory and a regular file in it will have different st_dev's, > though. Can you foresee any problems with that?
You're right. I was confused with another implementation of UnionMount, sorry. I think I had to sleep well.
J. R. Okajima
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