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Re: BSD Flags further

Subject: Re: BSD Flags further
From: AgentM <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:33:50 -0400


On Oct 18, 2006, at 12:22 , Jeffrey Ellis wrote:

I actually read a discussion somewhere, where the user was saying that setting the opaque flag was supposed to help in some instances (sorry, I didn't quite follow what they were trying to do, and I can't find that thread anymore...)
The only definition I've found so far is:
The opaque flag  will  prevent  a  full  union  stack
  traversal on later lookups.


http://rentzsch.com/macosx/unionFilesystems

I think it may have something to do with deleted files in the "false" union layer. But if Michael Smith says they have no meaning in OS X, they are likely unused in Darwin.

-M
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