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diff --git a/unionfs/CAVEAT b/unionfs/CAVEAT new file mode 100644 index 00000000..dbb88136 --- /dev/null +++ b/unionfs/CAVEAT @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +While using unionfs, you could experience more permission errors or +difficult or impossible file or directory deletion. This is a list of +things that can happen. + +WARNINGS: + +- If the translator is run as by an unpriviledged user, other users will fail +to create files or directory, since the translator won't be able to change +the ownership of the file. + + +PROBLEMS: + +- If there's a name conflict in underlying filesystems between directories +and files -- say that "foo" is a directory in underlying filesystem "a" while +is a file in the underlying filesystem "b" -- then unionfs will be unable to +delete this entry. This is a structural BUG (there's no clean way to solve it), +and should be fixed. + +- If there's a name conflict in underlying filesystems between directories +(or between files), and the user has not permission to delete _ALL_ the +entries -- e.g. one hidden entry is read-only -- then he will get an EPERM +even if permissions seems ok. This is a structural BUG (there's no clean way +to solve it), and should be fixed. + |