Hi, all: When I "ls" a overlayfs directory which has a whiteout device in it's upper dir, and got a strange output like this (aaa is a whiteout in upper): [ETO test]# ll -i ls: cannot access 'aaa': No such file or directory total 3 ? ?????????? ? ? ? ? ? aaa 157633 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 96 3月 31 2017 hello 157634 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 96 3月 31 2017 open 157632 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 128 3月 29 04:54 ssh But if I use "tree" to list the files , there is no whiteout device in the test(overlayfs root dir). I got this output and it seems OK. [ETO usb]# tree . ├── lower │ ├── aaa │ ├── hello │ │ └── uu │ └── ssh ├── test │ ├── hello │ ├── open │ │ └── uu │ └── ssh │ ├── aaa │ └── bbb ├── upper │ ├── aaa │ ├── hello │ │ └── uu │ ├── open │ │ └── uu │ └── ssh │ ├── aaa │ └── bbb If I am correct, I think if the upper dir has a whitout, and the root directory of overlayfs should not see this WHITEOUT DEV nor the file in the lower dir with the same name. Is this a overlayfs bug ??? ��.n��������+%������w��{.n�����{���w���jg��������ݢj����G�������j:+v���w�m������w�������h�����٥