Re: overlayfs: issue with a replaced lower squashfs with export-table

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On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 11:37 AM Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 10:31 AM Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >
> > 1) is not problematic IMO and the simple patch I posted may be applied
> > for fixing the reported issue, but it only solved the special case of null uuid.
> > The problem still exists with re-creating lower on xfs/ext4, e.g. by
> > rm -rf and unpacking image tar.
>
> How so?  st_ino may be reused but the fh is guaranteed to be unique.
>

Doh! You are right. I was talking nonsense.
The only problem would be with re-creating an xfs/ext4 lower image
with the same uuid maybe because a basic image is cloned.

In any case, it's a corner of a corner of a corner.
I will post the patch to fix null uuid.

Thanks,
Amir.



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