* Replace the stat values with a crc32b of them instead (for auto-cache)
* Replace char flag with bitfield
* Remove node generation. nodeid is an unsigned 64bit int. Would take 500K+ years
to rollover at 1M nodes per second.
* Remove request interrupt code. Required tracking of all requests unnecesssarily.
* Remove all debugging printing. Have plans to do full replacement.
* Remove deprecated functions.
* Remove unneeded error checking.
* Remove "userdata" which was unused.
* Remove allow_root feature.
* follow-symlinks: allows mergerfs to transparently follow symlinks
* link-exdev: in the event a link returns EXDEV create a symlink instead
* rename-exdev: in the event a rename returns EXDEV move the oldpath and
create a symlink for the newpath
This removes the risk of corrupted data being sent back to the kernel
should it use the offset from one opendir-readdir in another. In this case
it would at most skip dirents.
According to the standards the offset is only valid when used within
the opendir -> releasedir but NFS uses offsets across independent
calls.
Linux 4.20 and above allow setting the number of pages per FUSE message
upto 256 (4K * 256 = 1MiB). This can greatly increase read and write
speeds depending on the workload.
addresses #521
mergerfs is written using libfuse's high level API. The HLAPI forces a certain
behavior with regard to unlinking or rename overwriting of open files. It
renames the file to .fuse_hiddenXXXXXX and when incoming requests refer
to the unlinked file it will use path based calls and use that path.
This behavior leads to rmdirs failing or some software noticing
the .fuse_hidden files.
This patch changes the HLAPI and removes entirely the .fuse_hidden behavior.
See the README for more.
Antonio SJ Musumeci