Re: [PATCH 00/13] overlay filesystem v22

From: David Howells
Date: Thu May 29 2014 - 06:27:50 EST


Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> 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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