Unionfs: reduce number of whiteouts by deleting all instances of files
authorErez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
Sun, 23 Mar 2008 02:49:29 +0000 (22:49 -0400)
committerErez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
Sun, 23 Feb 2014 19:06:00 +0000 (14:06 -0500)
commitb3228419624061c38ebda788a4c03bcd59a2c60a
treec5672a2a38f11ecacd97068da0d28c47ed8fdc73
parent3fcc02b5352040c5530747e5da6b6085c16d07de
Unionfs: reduce number of whiteouts by deleting all instances of files

Optimize the unlinking of non-dir objects in unionfs by deleting all
possible lower inode objects from all writable lower branches.  This may
consume a bit more processing, but on average reduces overall inode
consumption and further saves a lot by reducing the total number of
whiteouts needed.  We create a whiteout now only if we could not delete all
lower objects, or if one of the lower branches was explicitly marked
read-only.

Signed-off-by: Himanshu Kanda <hkanda@cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
Documentation/filesystems/unionfs/concepts.txt
fs/unionfs/lookup.c
fs/unionfs/unlink.c