Re: [PATCH v5] overlayfs: Provide a mount option "volatile" to skip sync

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On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 11:27 AM Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Container folks are complaining that dnf/yum issues too many sync while
> > installing packages and this slows down the image build. Build
> > requirement is such that they don't care if a node goes down while
> > build was still going on. In that case, they will simply throw away
> > unfinished layer and start new build. So they don't care about syncing
> > intermediate state to the disk and hence don't want to pay the price
> > associated with sync.
> >

[...]

> Ping.
>
> Is there anything holding this patch?

Not sure what happened with protection against mounting a volatile
overlay twice, I don't see that in the patch.

With that added, I don't see anything else holding it back.

Thanks,
Miklos



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