linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/13] overlay filesystem v22

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Message-ID: <27746.1401359204@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date:	Thu, 29 May 2014 11:26:44 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, "J. R. Okajima" <hooanon05g@...il.com>,
	viro@...IV.linux.org.uk, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	hch@...radead.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, apw@...onical.com,
	nbd@...nwrt.org, neilb@...e.de, jordipujolp@...il.com,
	ezk@....cs.sunysb.edu, sedat.dilek@...il.com, mszeredi@...e.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] overlay filesystem v22

Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu> wrote:

> Perfect solution would be an invisible temp directory.  This needs filesystem
> support, but perhaps not so difficult.  Again could be done later without
> backward compatibility issues.

Maybe make a tempfile and hardlink it into place when complete.  That's what
unionmount is doing.

David
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