On Fri, 1 Oct 2010, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > Just been playing with overlayfs and hit a couple of issues. First I > was not able to build this filesystem as a module. Second statfs support > was missing. Following this email are a couple of patches which I used to > fix these up. I am not 100% sure the statfs approach is quite right, but > its not clear the semantics can ever be correct in the face of an overlay. Applied both patches and pused to the overlayfs.v3 branch. Also pushed a patch changing two BUG_ONs to WARN_ON. > > With these applied I was able to drop an overlay over the top of a very > out of date Ubuntu chroot and upgrade it to the latest and greatest; > all without incident. Great, thanks for testing. Miklos -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
