Re: [PATCH 0/7] overlay filesystem: request for inclusion

From: J. R. Okajima
Date: Fri Jul 15 2011 - 09:04:10 EST



> > st_nlink==1 for directories is widely accepted way of saying that the
> > number of subdirectories is unknown. Various filesystems already do
> > this, and versions of GNU utils that I have come across accept it.
>
> When the upperdir is tmpfs, the link count of the directories in it will
> not be 1, won't it?

Ah, I've found overlayfs sets it to 1 now.

Thanks
J. R. Okajima
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