Tag
filesystem-semantics
- Sep 24, 2026 Incremental Correctness Under Source Mutation Every incremental build assumes the source tree holds still while it runs. What an edit arriving mid-build does to the graph, how tools detect it, and the snapshot technique that removes the assumption. developer tools
- Feb 23, 2026 Copy-Up, Whiteouts and Rename in Overlay Roots What happens on the first write to a file from a lower layer, how deletions are represented without deleting, and which POSIX behaviours overlayfs cannot preserve. virtualization