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Another ioctl feature, move-down.
The behaviour is, as you can guess, the opposite of copy-up.
The feature called FHSM (file-based hierarchical storage management, in
later commit) uses this ioctl aggressively.

See also the document in this commit.
Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05g@gmail.com>

Implement the user interface.
Since users often wonder "Why I cannot delete this branch?", 'verbose'
option was introduced.

You may think aufs should not hold several strings for the variation of
the option, and the mount helper (/sbin/mount.aufs) can convert all
variations to a single fixed string, and in kernel space aufs should
contain this only one string.
I agree, but in our real world, many users don't install
/sbin/mount.aufs. To be convenient, aufs contains these variations.
Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05g@gmail.com>

By default, aufs doesn't copy-up the file in open(2).
The file write operation is one of the trigger of the copy-up.
Although I understand that O_RDWR or O_WRONLY should trigger the
copy-up, it is not a good idea for the case of open(O_RDWR) +
mmap(MAP_PRIVATE). In this case, all changes are not written-back to the
file on disk, and the copy-up is meaningless entirely.
In other words, aufs postpone the copy-up as possible.

This design also applies to the file operation after branch management.
Some of the opened file need to be refreshed after add/del/mod
branches. Eg. detect the revealed same named one, open it, close the old
one internally while the virtual file is kept opened.
Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05g@gmail.com>

Support for XATTR and ACL including several branch attributes to ignore
the copy error around XATTR and ACL.

NFS always sets MS_POSIXACL regardless its mount option 'noacl.'
When MS_POSIXACL is set, generic_permission() calls check_acl() (via
acl_permission_check()) and gets -EOPNOTSUPP because the NFS branch is
mounted as 'noacl.'
In aufs, h_permission() should not call generic_permission() in this
case.
The similar thing happens in coping-up XATTR. vfs_getxattr_alloc()
returns -EOPNOTSUPP.

See also the document in this commit.
Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05g@gmail.com>

As a result of branch management, the virtual inode may point a
different real inode from it used to. And aufs has to maintain its
address_space_operations, since its definition may affect the
behaviour.
I know some people (including grsec-patch) doesn't like a non-const
address_space_operations, but in order to keep the consistency of the
behaviour, the correct address_space_operations is important.

See also the document in this commit.
Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05g@gmail.com>

Aufs allows users' direct branch access (UDBA), ie. by-passing aufs.
Of course it will make aufs inode/dentry-caches obsolete. In order to
detect such change by the several tests, "udba=" option is introduced.

For details, see lookup.txt in later commit.
Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05g@gmail.com>

Imagine a sequence such like this.
- user opens a file which exists on the lower readonly branch.
- user unlinks the file (still opened). its parent dir may be removed
  too.
- user writes something to the file.

Then aufs has to copy-up the unlinked file.
Note that the copy-up in aufs is not done in open(2) by default.
This commit handles this case by copy-up the file in write(2).
The target directory is the one which aufs created internally for this
purpose.
Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05g@gmail.com>

Copy-up the ancestors of the target.
Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05g@gmail.com>

Because the copy-up operation is big and has many parameters and
functions, consolidate them in this commit.
Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05g@gmail.com>

The functions for
- create the copy-up target file
- copy filedata
- copy metadata

In copying filedata, I had tried splice_direct() instead of repeating
read/write. Surprisingly, I could not see a big difference. So let's
keep this approach for a while. Someday SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE become more
popular, it may help optimizing this read/write.
Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05g@gmail.com>

Copy the inode attributes between branches.
See also the document in this commit.
Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05g@gmail.com>

The generation of iinfo and dinfo inherit sbinfo's.
Also iinfo generation tracks the branch inode's generation to test the
matching after the branch management.
Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05g@gmail.com>