trapexit

The mergerfs trace doesn't show interacting with the log files. Either the temp file or log.txt. Are you able to reproduce this with Telegram (or better yet simple tooling) without...

BTW... you need to use `use_ino`

As the docs mention `use_ino` is required for inodecalc to make any sense. Otherwise libfuse is just giving out random inode values. caching could explain some of the situation but...

use_ino impacts the inode generation. You set `inodecalc` and that has no meaning/impact unless you enable `use_ino`.

It looks like the traces are from different times.

After the `unlink` there is no further evidence that mergerfs is being requested to do anything with `log.txt`. You said if you turn off some caching it works? Can you...

Everything looks the same between the two until after the temporary file for log.txt is unlinked. After that the client tries to chmod the linked log.txt file. When caching is...

Please use the most recent version and test with a simplified setup. I can't control what macOS or Samba do and they in the past have had poor behaviors. >...

We can leave it open but without confirming whose having the issue I can't really do much. The process itself is no more or less heavy than a normal file...

What do you suggest mergerfs do? This is hardly unique to it. The same would happen with any dependency not yet mounted. systemd has the ability to manage dependencies and...