linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] overlayfs update for 4.8

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Message-ID: <CAJfpegunRx_uBU2NTV1yAGxMfNCrem3WWKwToS=G5xCX1pZSpw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 29 Jul 2016 22:00:09 +0200
From:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-unionfs@...r.kernel.org" <linux-unionfs@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] overlayfs update for 4.8

On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 9:26 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 4:20 AM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu> wrote:
>>
>> First of all, this fixes a regression in overlayfs introduced by the dentry hash
>> salting.  I've moved the patch fixing this to the front of the queue, so if (god
>> forbid) something needs to be bisected in overlayfs this regression won't
>> interfere with that.
>
> Thanks, I had missed that completely, and while I build overlayfs for
> testing, I don't have any actual tests of it.
>

If you want a quick overlayfs test, do "mkdir -p /lower /upper; ./run --ov" from

  git://git.infradead.org/users/dhowells/unionmount-testsuite.git

It takes 17sec on my laptop.

Thanks,
Miklos