Re: filesystem feature - whitespace

[Alex Pilosov <alex@pilosoft.com>]

Whiteout is ability to temporarily 'hide' a file by masking its directory
entry, but leaving inode intact. I'm not sure whether openbsd even has
userspace tools to support this. It isn't too useful, except for
things like translucent filesystem. (copy-on-write filesystem)...

On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, matthew patton wrote:

> On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Alex Pilosov wrote:
> 
> > You probably mean 'sparse files', not whitespace. 
> 
> Actually I meant 'whiteout'. sorry about that. as in
> xxx_whiteout() defined in xxx_vnops.c
> 
>