[Unionfs] Can't mount NFS-exported union anymore in unionfs-1.4

[hooanon05 at yahoo.co.jp]

Erez Zadok:
> That's odd, and an obvious bug.

agreed.


> But your proposed patch (snippet above) just enforces the ordering, which
> isn't terribly clean.  Why can't the patch simply accept the options in any
> order, and handle them appropriately?

Because of unionfs option parser.
parse_imap_option() requires that the dirs option has been parsed.
I agree it is bad. Probably unionfs needs a new parser.

Junjiro Okajima