Overlayfs falls back to index=off if lower/upper fs does not support file handles. Do the same if upper fs does not support xattr. Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/overlayfs/super.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c index 5f6d2385c0b3..5d5e2b39ba69 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c @@ -967,7 +967,8 @@ static int ovl_make_workdir(struct ovl_fs *ofs, struct path *workpath) err = ovl_do_setxattr(ofs->workdir, OVL_XATTR_OPAQUE, "0", 1, 0); if (err) { ofs->noxattr = true; - pr_warn("overlayfs: upper fs does not support xattr.\n"); + ofs->config.index = false; + pr_warn("overlayfs: upper fs does not support xattr, falling back to index=off.\n"); err = 0; } else { vfs_removexattr(ofs->workdir, OVL_XATTR_OPAQUE); -- 2.7.4 -- 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