[Bug 1916190] New: Review Request: overlayfs-tools - OverlayFS layers manipulation tools

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1916190

            Bug ID: 1916190
           Summary: Review Request: overlayfs-tools - OverlayFS layers
                    manipulation tools
           Product: Fedora
           Version: rawhide
          Hardware: All
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
         Component: Package Review
          Severity: medium
          Priority: medium
          Assignee: nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
          Reporter: dominik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
        QA Contact: extras-qa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
                CC: package-review@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Target Milestone: ---
    Classification: Fedora



Spec URL:
https://rathann.fedorapeople.org/review/overlayfs-tools/overlayfs-tools.spec
SRPM URL:
https://rathann.fedorapeople.org/review/overlayfs-tools/overlayfs-tools-0-0.1.20200817git77bf3f7.fc33.src.rpm
Description:
OverlayFS is the union filesystem provided by Linux kernel.

This program comes provides three tools:

* vacuum - remove duplicated files in upperdir where copy_up is done but the
  file is not actually modified (see the sentence "the copy_up may turn out to
  be unnecessary" in the Linux documentation). This may reduce the size of
  upperdir without changing lowerdir or overlay.
* diff - show the list of actually changed files (the difference between
overlay
  and lowerdir). A file with its type changed (i.e. from symbolic link to
  regular file) will shown as deleted then added, rather than modified.
  Similarly, for a opaque directory in upperdir, the corresponding directory in
  lowerdir (if exists) will be shown as entirely deleted, and a new directory
  with the same name added. File permission/owner changes will be simply shown
  as modified.
* merge - merge down the changes from upperdir to lowerdir. Unlike aubrsync for
  AuFS which bypasses the union filesystem mechanism, overlayfs-utils emulates
  the OverlayFS logic, which will be far more efficient. After this operation,
  upperdir will be empty and lowerdir will be the same as original overlay.
* deref - copy changes from upperdir to uppernew while unfolding redirect
  directories and metacopy regular files, so that new upperdir is compatible
  with legacy overlayfs driver.

For safety reasons, vacuum and merge will not actually modify the filesystem,
but generate a shell script to do the changes instead.

Fedora Account System Username: rathann


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