Miklos Szeredi: > They don't "solve" this, it's a fundamental property of the > implementation. Overlayfs and union-mounts behave as if copy-up was a > "bind mount" over the file in question. Yes, it's a namespace trick > but it seems to work in most situations. It must be a sad news for overlayfs users who have every met "non-most" situations. > The point was that uid/gid was to be overridden with *different* > values for each overlayfs instance. So implementing uid/gid > overriding in the lower fs doesn't help. For the scenario which Alessandro Pignotti posted, - everything on the lower fs are owned by a single user, by the overriding feature. - everything on the upper fs are owned by the user natively. Isn't it enough? J. R. Okajima -- 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
