Josh England: > So, let me pose this somewhat naive question: Would it be possible to > simply disable any cacheing performed by the overlay to force all > reads to go to either the tmpfs upper or the (VFS-cached) NFS lower? > Would this be enough to accomplish my goal of being able to change the > lowerdir of an active overlayfs? For your information, aufs allows by-passing aufs, ie. the modification on the layers or UDBA (user's direct branch access). Internally aufs sets the inotify to the cached dir inodes and recieves the notification when the files on the branches (layers) are modified. Recieving the notification, aufs marks the cached inode obsolete. Next time when the access happens, aufs_d_revalidate() checks the mark and forces VFS to to re-lookup. You can enable/disable this feature anytime by "mount -o remount,udba=brabra ..." J. R. Okajima
