linux-kernel - Re: Unionmount status?

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <BANLkTikF_hgYSaZJbZosWwcs715tLXYfmQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:31:26 +0200
From:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:	Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...trum.cz>
Cc:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>, Ric Wheeler <ricwheeler@...il.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Ian Kent <ikent@...hat.com>, Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: Unionmount status?

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...trum.cz> wrote:
> On 14 April 2011 10:38, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu> wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...trum.cz> wrote:
>>> On 13 April 2011 16:18, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz> wrote:
>>>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/3/22/222
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for pointing out this announcement.
>>>
>>> However, neither this announcement nor the document
>>> Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt included in the git tree
>>> details how to mount the filesystem. Without that it is kind of
>>> useless.
>>
>> Oh, I'll fix that in the docs.  Thanks for pointing it out.
>>
>> Here's how to mount:
>>
>>  mount -t overlayfs overlayfs -olowerdir=/lower -oupperdir=/upper /overlay
>>
>
> OK, I built a small live CD with the v7 patch and I can boot it but I
> get errors like
>
> Cleaning up temporary files...
> [    nn.nnnnnn] overlayfs: ERROR - failed to whiteout 'motd'
> find: cannot delete `./motd': Operation not supported

What is the upper filesystem type?  Is xattr support enabled?

Thanks,
Miklos
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/