From 681f3d7492968a4d32ab8909013b95f3ed81ccd1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Antonio SJ Musumeci Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 15:07:55 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] add section to readme about trash directories --- README.md | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index c5d5a7ff..8d93af16 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -322,6 +322,12 @@ Find extra tooling to help with managing `mergerfs` at: https://github.com/trape # Known Issues / Bugs +#### Trashing files occasionally fails + +This is the same issue as with Samba. `rename` returns `EXDEV` (in our case that will really only happen with path preserving policies like `epmfs`) and the software doesn't handle the situtation well. This is unfortunately a common failure of software which moves files around. The standard indicates that an implementation `MAY` choose to support non-user home directory trashing of files (which is a `MUST`). The implementation `MAY` also support "top directory trashes" which many probably do. + +To create a `$topdir/.Trash` directory as defined in the standard use the [mergerfs-tools](https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs-tools) tool `mergerfs.mktrash`. + #### Samba * Moving files or directories between some directories on a SMB share fail with IO errors.