Hi Miklos, I've seen issues when I try to use a Qemu/KVM + 9P and a Overlay FS. The issue started to show from v4.14 and I bisected the guilty commit to 4edb83bb1041 ("ovl: constant d_ino for non-merge dirs") The issue is showed when ovl_iterate_real(file, ctx) is called, if I commented out that *if* block to just load iterate_dir(od->realfile, ctx), everything works fine. To reproduce the issue just create a OverlayFS and use the merged directory as a 9P share directory to the VM. You will see that the upper ONLY files/directories are seen good, but when you try to list the lower and merged files the process couldn't finish and ends with a "ls: Memory exhausted" I've tried to fix it but my knowledge is not enough on FS. I've done small script to reproduce the issue, they are at https://github.com/miguelinux/overlay-9p-issue -- Regards, Miguel Bernal Marin Open Source Technology Center https://clearlinux.org Intel Corporation -- 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