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由 Miklos Szeredi 提交于
Whiteout isn't actually a new file type, but is represented as a char device (Linus's idea) with 0/0 device number. This has several advantages compared to introducing a new whiteout file type: - no userspace API changes (e.g. trivial to make backups of upper layer filesystem, without losing whiteouts) - no fs image format changes (you can boot an old kernel/fsck without whiteout support and things won't break) - implementation is trivial Signed-off-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
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