Tomas M:
> I prefer to just mention this problem in aufs documentation, so people 
> will 'stat' a fuse-based filesystem's mountpoint before adding it as 
> aufs branch.

It is not enough since Miklos thinks getattr is necessary for every VFS
lookup. Of course, I don't agree.


> I don't understand whether FUSE does the right think or AUFS does it the 
> right way, nevertheless I prefer to keep aufs code clean, that means, 
> don't implement any workarounds for special filesystems.

I am feeling it is time to handle FUSE specially.
It will be rough or imcomplete and tiny handling. Because according to
him, the bug is in VFS. It means a lower filesystem hardly fix it.


Junjiro Okajima

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