On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 02:31:48PM -0400, Erez Zadok wrote:
> 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.
 
Ok.
 
> > 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.

Hrm. Good point.

>  So I'd like to Do It Right [tm] the first time around.

Sounds good.

Jeff.

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