[Unionfs] unionfs 2.1.4: invalid option "whiteout"

[Josef Sipek]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 08:31:43AM +1000, Rod Berriman wrote:
> I picked up unionfs 2.1.4 for 2.6.20.19 a couple of weeks ago, for a custom 
> build originally based on DSL-N, which is based on Knoppix.
>
> Anyway, I got a kernel error:
>    unionfs: invalid option "whiteout"
> on the command line:
>    mount -t unionfs -o dirs=/ramdisk=rw:/KNOPPIX=ro,delete=whiteout 
> /UNIONFS /UNIONFS
>
> By removing "delete=whiteout", it works fine, and the delete behaviour is 
> the same as whiteout anyway, presumably because the secondary branch is 
> read only.
>
>    * Is the option "delete=whiteout" still valid?

Nope. The delete= option has been removed during the move to 2.0 more than a
year ago. The behavior 2.x uses is the same as delete=whiteout.

Josef 'Jeff' Sipek.

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