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SubjectRe: [PATCH 13/35] fallthru: ext2 fallthru support
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On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 14:40 +0200, Jan Blunck wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 15, Valerie Aurora wrote:
>
> > Add support for fallthru directory entries to ext2.
> >
> > XXX - Makes up inode number for fallthru entry
> > XXX - Might be better implemented as special symlinks
>
> Better not. David Woodhouse actually convinced me of moving away from the
> special symlink approach. The whiteouts have been implemented as special
> symlinks before.

I certainly asked whether you really need a real 'struct inode' for
whiteouts, and suggested that they should be represented _purely_ as a
dentry with type DT_WHT.

I don't much like the manifestation of that in this patch though,
especially with the made-up inode number. (ISTR I had other
jffs2-specific objections too, which I'll dig out and forward).

--
David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation



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