Re: [PATCH 15/32] union-mount: Documentation

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Mon May 25 2009 - 04:03:31 EST


On Monday 25 May 2009, hooanon05@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Is renaming a regular file supported?
> Accrding to the change in "[PATCH 24/32] union-mount: in-kernel file
> copy between union mounted filesystems", every rename under union seems
> to be rejected.

Right, but that is consistent with how the kernel would treat a
rename from one mount point to another, and tools like 'mv'
can handle this in user space.

Arnd <><
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