From: Miklos Szeredi Aufs seems to depend on a positive i_nlink value. So fill in a dummy but sane value for the root inode at mount time. The inode attributes are refreshed with the correct values at the first opportunity. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/fuse/inode.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN fs/fuse/inode.c~fuse-set-i_nlink-to-sane-value-after-mount fs/fuse/inode.c --- a/fs/fuse/inode.c~fuse-set-i_nlink-to-sane-value-after-mount +++ a/fs/fuse/inode.c @@ -489,6 +489,7 @@ static struct inode *get_root_inode(stru attr.mode = mode; attr.ino = FUSE_ROOT_ID; + attr.nlink = 1; return fuse_iget(sb, 1, 0, &attr); } _