Subject: Re: bin/5419... again.
To: None <ianzag@megasignal.com>
From: Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh@jodi.nimenees.com>
List: current-users
Date: 03/30/2004 08:59:24
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 08:46:26PM +0700, ianzag@megasignal.com wrote:
> ? ????????? ?? 30 ???? 2004 13:33 Dave Huang ???????(a):
> > Time for another NetBSD release, and time for me to ask if anyone is
> > going to do anything with PR bin/5419 :) It's been looked at a few
> > times over the past 6 years, but nobody's actually commited the patch.
> > Is is really that difficult to test?
> 
> Sorry for my ignorance, but what file type == whiteout means ?
	A whiteout is a way to erase a file when you can't (or don't want to)
change the underlying store.  Union mounts can create whiteouts because
removing a file from the top layer shouldn't change the bottom layer.

eric