[Unionfs] Turning off the "new generation number" message

[Erez Zadok]

In message <bb40d52e0810021556k289e82bdpc45ee985cd5043e9 at mail.gmail.com>, "Samad Lotia" writes:
> Hello,
> I am a new UnionFS user, and it has been working fantastically well. I
> have configured my computer to mount hundreds of unionized directories
> at startup. (I am using UnionFS as my sort of package manager.)
> Unfortunately, this floods the screen with "unionfs: none: new
> generation number" messages. Is there anyway I could turn this message
> off? I looked at the source code, and unionfs only prints this message
> if the MS_SILENT flag is on. This flag's status is apparently
> specified by Linux VFS.
> 
> Thank you,
> Samad

Samad, if you have a sufficiently new version of /bin/mount, then you can
pass it the 'quiet' flag which'll enable the MS_SILENT flag, therefore
turning off this message.  Try something like:

# mount -t unionfs -o remount,quiet ...

Erez.