On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 11:35:59AM +0000, David Howells wrote: > > Whether deny rmdir should have its own flag or not I don't know, > > but from ovl POV I *think* it should not be a problem to deny rmdir > > for the ovl upper/work dirs as long as ovl is mounted(?). > > What's the consequence of someone rearranging the directories directly in the > contributing dirs whilst there's an overlay over them? "Don't do it, then - presumably the kernel won't panic, but don't expect it to try and invent nice semantics for the crap you are trying to pull"