From 403e32df23cf44d82bb92bd3cfd55d16d32acafd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 10:59:57 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fuse: Add a note about preserving inode numbers using -o
 use_ino.

Thanks: David Juran
---
 fuse/guestmount.pod | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fuse/guestmount.pod b/fuse/guestmount.pod
index bfb9af40a..0db5c6c40 100644
--- a/fuse/guestmount.pod
+++ b/fuse/guestmount.pod
@@ -332,6 +332,19 @@ a good idea if you can afford the extra memory usage.
 Use these options to map all UIDs and GIDs inside the guest filesystem
 to the chosen values.
 
+=item B<-o use_ino>
+
+Preserve inode numbers from the underlying filesystem.
+
+Without this option, FUSE makes up its own inode numbers.  The inode
+numbers you see in L<stat(2)>, C<ls -i> etc aren't the inode numbers
+of the underlying filesystem.
+
+B<Note> this option is potentially dangerous if the underlying
+filesystem consists of multiple mountpoints, as you may see duplicate
+inode numbers appearing through FUSE.  Use of this option can confuse
+some software.
+
 =back
 
 =item B<--pid-file filename>