Hello, Would it be possible for overlayfs to support being mounted with an upperdir on an ecryptfs filesystem? andin@box:~$ mkdir lower upper work merged andin@box:~$ sudo mount -t overlay overlay -o lowerdir=$HOME/lower,upperdir=$HOME/upper,workdir=$HOME/workdir merged mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on overlay, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so andin@box:~$ tail -n 1 /var/log/syslog Feb 21 18:57:01 box kernel: [ 5323.931064] overlayfs: filesystem on '/home/andin/upper' not supported as upperdir andin@box:~$ mount|grep " / " /dev/sda2 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered) andin@box:~$ mount|grep home /home/.ecryptfs/andin/.Private on /home/andin type ecryptfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,ecryptfs_fnek_sig=11c07678abb13aac,ecryptfs_sig=b1d3451eeea22381,ecryptfs_cipher=aes,ecryptfs_key_bytes=16,ecryptfs_unlink_sigs) Thanks, - Andin -- 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