Hello Peter,

Peter Kork:
> the aufs manpage states hat the top-down-parent create policy "Selects the
> highest writable branch where the parent dir exists. If the parent dir does
> not exist on a writable branch, then the internal copyup will happen." I
> suspect this wording is incorrect, and the following would describe it
> better: "Select the highest branch where the parent dir exists. If this
> branch is not writable, internal copyup will happen."

Exactly.
Thank you very much for report and fix.


> I am, however, not sure if this behavior is intentional and just inexactly
> described, or if the policy is intended as described and wrongly
> implemented?

The documentation is wrong.


J. R. Okajima

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