On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Klaus Kreil <klaus.kreil@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >>> Is there some hint in the dmesg output? >>> >> The messag from dmesg reads as follows: >> [ 1.323319] overlayfs: failed to resolve '/.work': -2 You need to give absolute paths: mount -t overlayfs overlayfs -o lowerdir=/mnt/root_ro,upperdir=/mnt/root_rw/upper,workdir=/mnt/root_rw/work /mnt/root Thanks, Miklos -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-unionfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html