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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------