linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/28] ovl: Provide a mount option metacopy=on/off for metadata copyup

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Message-ID: <CAJfpegtSm8_xHspGtuP5b+4uasG4jU-apAmsjtJ-fVeL8uhZNg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 30 May 2018 10:27:18 +0200
From:   Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc:     Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...hat.com>,
        overlayfs <linux-unionfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/28] ovl: Provide a mount option metacopy=on/off for
 metadata copyup

On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 10:44 PM, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org> wrote:
> On 05/29/2018 07:45 AM, Miklos Szeredi wrote:

>> +       If this config option is enabled then overlay filesystems will
>> +       copy up only metadata where appropriate and data copy up will
>> +       happen when a file is opended for WRITE operation. It is still
>
>                                 opened

Thanks for the feedback.  Fixed.

Miklos