Re: Optional switching off cow in overlayfs

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Jan Olszak <j.olszak@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I was wondering about a small improvement to overlayfs - optional, per file
> copy of write.
> 
> 1. By default overlayfs would work as usual.
> 2. If a file in 'lower' filesystem has an xattr set
> (e.g. trusted.overlay.cow=n) the file would not be copied.
> 
> What do you think?

Ummm.  What's the use case?  How do you handle the file being part of multiple
overlays?

David
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