Re: Overlayfs with NFS lower layer

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On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 7:59 PM, Duncan Hare <dh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We are looking at disk less operation:
>
> Some questions
> 1. Is it possible to use an NFS export as the lower layer on Overlayfs?

Yes.

> 2. If 1 is not possible in the current release, what's needed to do
> this?
> 3. Are whiteouts configurable? That is if a file is deleted in the
> upper layer, can Ocerlay fs revert to thefile of the same name in
> the lower layer?

I don't understand the use case.
Please give an example.
Do you want to revert while overlay is mounted? offline?
I guess you can just delete the whiteout when overlay is offline.

Amir.
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