Re: [atomic-devel] Fedora 26 change: using overlayfs as default

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On 12/14/2016 07:51 AM, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> 
> I have heard that the issue with yum/rpm is being worked on in the kernel.
> For those that to not know the issue is for programs that open a file twice
> once for readonly and then later for read/write.  In the first open the file is
> on the lower file system.  When you open the second time for read/write,
> Overlay does a COPY/UP which creates a separate file.  The program thinks
> that it has the same file opened twice, but it actually has two different files
> open.

That is great information. Is there an issue somewhere where we can
track the progress of the "fix"?

Dusty
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