Unmounting lower filesystem while overlayfs uses it

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Hi,

I noticed that you can continue using overlayfs while the underlying filesystem is unmounted. While overlayfs continues to use and show the entries from the underlying filesystem. Howerver, /proc/mounts is missing the lowerdir mount entry. This could be pretty confusing for users (say for example for users looking to hot swap devices)

I traced it down to the vfs mount point being copied/cloned as opposed to using the original one. Is there a reason why a new vfsmount is used as opposed to using the lowerdir's vfsmount? Perhaps I did not look hard enough, but I did not find any changes being made to the cloned lowerdir vfsmount.

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Goldwyn
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