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

Erez Zadok
2008-05-12T03:57:37Z

In message <20080512034341.GA10541@in.ibm.com>, 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.