Subject: Re: bin/5419... again.
To: None <ianzag@megasignal.com>
From: Andreas Kahari <ak+netbsd@freeshell.org>
List: current-users
Date: 03/30/2004 15:12:21 
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 08:46:26PM +0700, ianzag@megasignal.com wrote:
> В сообщении от 30 Март 2004 13:33 Dave Huang написал(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 an invisible file in the upper layer of a union
mount.  It hides a file in the lower layer and makes it appear
as if it was deleted.

See mount_union(8).


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