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Fuse doesn't want the callers to access the inode attributes without
issuing stat, and it is not assured that they are valid after lookup or
iget().
The inode attribute is critical for aufs, and aufs decided to call stat
every time for fuse.
Of course, it makes aufs slow. But when the branch fs is not fuse, stat
is not called.

Currently, only FUSE implements ->poll(), and aufs supports it.
Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05g@gmail.com>

This is a feature to optimize for rmdir and rename dir.
When the number of whiteouts under the target dir is very many, it may
take a long time to remove them all. To prevent this, 'dirwh=%d' option
specifies the watermark to decide when to remove them.

For details, see aufs manual in aufs-util.git.
Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05g@gmail.com>

Sometimes the aufs policy to respect the branch fs's permission bits
makes users confused. IE. the direcotry permission bits on the top branch
allows users to read, but the lower branch prohibts. This option may be
useful for such case.
See also the document in this commit.
Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05g@gmail.com>

Implement i_op->rmdir() with supporting logical deletion by whiteout
including all children.

As struct.txt in previous commit described, the target dir is renamed to
a whiteout-ed temporary unique name in rmdir(2), and then removed
asynchronously by the system global workqueue.
Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05g@gmail.com>

Implement i_op->unlink() with supporting logical deletion by whiteout.
Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05g@gmail.com>