Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] Union Mount: glibc readdir support

From: Erez Zadok
Date: Sun May 11 2008 - 23:57:38 EST


In message <20080512034341.GA10541@xxxxxxxxxx>, Bharata B Rao writes:

> Answering my question to Erez that I raised in another thread, I see
> that Unionfs doesn't set the export_operations in it's superblock and
> hence I believe unions created by Unionfs aren't NFS-exportable as of
> know. Erez, correct me if I got it wrong.

Yes, the unionfs in -mm isn't nfs exportable safely, b/c it doesn't have
persistent inode numbers. Our unionfs-odf version has persistent inode
numbers and is exportable (see http://unionfs.filesystems.org/).

> Regards,
> Bharata.

Erez.
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