From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755978AbaE2K1e (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2014 06:27:34 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:30465 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750723AbaE2K1d (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2014 06:27:33 -0400 Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd. Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SI4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 3798903 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: <20140528160653.GL17233@tucsk.piliscsaba.szeredi.hu> References: <20140528160653.GL17233@tucsk.piliscsaba.szeredi.hu> <1400838223-30844-1-git-send-email-miklos@szeredi.hu> <25513.1401069402@jrobl> To: Miklos Szeredi Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, "J. R. Okajima" , viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, apw@canonical.com, nbd@openwrt.org, neilb@suse.de, jordipujolp@gmail.com, ezk@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu, sedat.dilek@gmail.com, mszeredi@suse.cz Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] overlay filesystem v22 Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 11:26:44 +0100 Message-ID: <27746.1401359204@warthog.procyon.org.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Miklos Szeredi 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