On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 5:29 AM, 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 > 2) take whiteout/opaque support from union mounts and use that > > Both have advantages and disadvantages. > > Any thoughts? Please get together with Eric: he's having trouble whipping up enthusiasm for his tmpfs xattr patch, he and I would both appreciate your support (and if I've persuaded him to leave out a part of it that you would need, join forces to call me an idiot). Mainly I'm hoping to hear from hch and jmorris on it, being xattr-illiterate myself. https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/3/29/302 Hugh -- 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
