On 2014/11/25 22:41, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > No, I don't think this makes any sense. Maintenance can be done by > unmounting the overlay and doing modification directly on the upper > layer. After this is done (adding/removing opaque flag, adding > removing whiteouts, etc) the overlay can be mounted again and the > modifications will be applied. Yes, we can remove overlayfs_xattr directly on upper files. > > I don't think online modification of the internal attributes of the > overlay makes much sense. > > Except maybe, maybe a privileged undelete, but even that one is > tricky: the whiteout was either from deletion of the lower layer or > the upper layer file, the later not being undeleteable. But the two > cases are currently indistinguishable, so the undelete would always > recover the lower layer file, which is probably not what the user > wants and might cause more harm than good. > Agree. Thanks for your explanation. Now I know "trusted.overlay.opaque" can be set in userspace, but this xattr is set on files in upper filesystem, not directly on files in overlayfs. Thanks~! Hu -- 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
