On 15 April 2011 14:29, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Michal Suchanek <hramrach@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 15 April 2011 13:31, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Michal Suchanek <hramrach@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> >>>> Cleaning up temporary files... >>>> [ Â Ânn.nnnnnn] overlayfs: ERROR - failed to whiteout 'motd' >>>> find: cannot delete `./motd': Operation not supported >>> >>> What is the upper filesystem type? ÂIs xattr support enabled? >>> >> >> The upper filesystem is tmpfs and there is not option regarding XATTR >> in the config. > > Apparently tmpfs does not support generic xattr. ÂI understand why > tmpfs is an attractive choice for an upper filesystem, so this should > be addressed. > > I see two options here: > > 1) implement generic xattr in tmpfs IMHO this is a general feature that keeps overlayfs in itself clean and small and can benefit other uses of tmpfs. > 2) take whiteout/opaque support from union mounts and use that How far from importing full unionmount is that? Thanks Michal -- 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
