[LPIA Hardy LUM, netbook-lpia branch] unionfs: enable delete=all unionfs mount option
Tim Gardner
tim.gardner at canonical.com
Wed Oct 7 18:51:23 UTC 2009
Colin Ian King wrote:
> For: Hardy Lum, netbook-lpia branch
>
> LP#445673
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/445673
>
> unionfs does not have the delete=all mount option compiled
> in. Enable this by adding -DUNIONFS_DELETE_ALL to CFLAGS.
>
> Without the delete=all option configured one cannot mount
> a unionfs without having to fallback on using whiteouts which
> can consume a considerable amount of inodes to mark deleted
> files. This can cause problems on unionfs systems with limited
> inode reservations where storage is very limited.
>
> Attached: the patch
>
>
ACK. Do you think this might also apply to Jaunty? Or did we use aufs ?
They all run together.
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