[LPIA Hardy LUM, netbook-lpia branch] unionfs: enable delete=all unionfs mount option

Stefan Bader stefan.bader at canonical.com
Thu Oct 8 16:44:20 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
> 
> 
Applied to hardy-lum

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