Klaus Knopper: > I just did not want a file to get deleted on a non-toplevel branch when > doing snapshots with multiple rw branches. WEll, maybe my interpretation > of what the delete=all default does is wrong, but I thought that > delete=whiteout would be the safest opion, which only operates on the > toplevel rw branch. Right?
As I wrote in another mail, DELETE_ALL is heavy. DELETE_WHITEOUT is better. The motivate of I suggested RENAME_WHITEOUT is very similar to what Klaus expects. Current algorithm and implementations are, DELETE_ALL - deletes the entry on rw branch. real delete, instead of creating whiteout on that branch. - process on ALL rw branches. - create whiteout on first writable branch, starting from the branch to upper which holds the entry. that branch may not be top. DELETE_WHITEOUT - deletes the entry on first writable branch. that branch may not be top. - create whiteout on that branch. After new rename mode is accepted, I'd like to suggest new whiteout mode which processes only toplevel rw branch, always toplevel. Junjiro Okajima _______________________________________________ unionfs mailing list [email protected] http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/mailman/listinfo/unionfs
