Directory /foo/bar Client (overlay) creates /foo/bar/biz /foo/bar gets deleted from lower (on NFS server) All of /foo/bar (including biz) still exists on client because it had been copied up. This is actually the behavior I'd expect given the nature of overlayfs. -JE On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 11:44 AM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 11:08:31AM -0800, Josh England wrote: > >> The behavior I've noted so far from this patch seems to be very well >> defined and follows the rule of least surprise (at least for me). I >> can change files/directories in the shared root and the changes are >> instantly visible to all clients. If a file/directory has been copied >> up on the client that change takes precedence over changes in the >> lower. Deletes work as expected. I haven't found a downside yet. > > Try to do something that invalidates a directory in underlying layer > with stuff in overlay on its subdirectories.
