In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Josef Sipek writes:
> On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 02:12:04PM -0400, Erez Zadok wrote:
[...]
> There are two posibilities:
> 
> 1) say: "too bad, that's not supported" (which is basically what we do now)

I won't allow us to spend substantial time developing a new
branch-management method, unless it handles multiple changes atomically.

> 2) add more code to unionfs to handle the case
> 
> This makes me wonder how frequently do people want to do these kind of
> complex operations?

Other than Shaya, I don't know.  But we are the first file systems, AFAIK,
which really is a "collection" of other file systems, and hence we're
dealing with new semantics never seen before in Linux.  So I'd like to Do It
Right [tm] the first time around.

> Jeff.

Erez.
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