On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 6:58 PM Aleksa Sarai <asarai@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 2020-08-28, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > > Hi Guys, > > > > > > It's been nice to virtually meet with you yesterday. > > > Some of you wanted to follow up on overlayfs related issues. > > > > > > If you want to discuss, try to find me in one of the > > > https://meet.2020.linuxplumbersconf.org/hackrooms > > > today between 16:00-17:00 UTC > > > (No need to enter the room to see who's inside) > > > > > > If those times do not work for you, contact me and we can try > > > to schedule another time. > > > > Did this conversation wind up happening? Do we need to reschedule? > > This conversation already happened in a Hackroom on Tuesday. I'm not > sure if the Hackrooms will have their recordings published, so maybe > Amir can post any of the takeaways we had? > AFAIK we had discussed two issues. 1. Watching changes on upper layer 2. OCI format v2 #1 was brought up by Josh Triplett. He asked whether watching changes using inotify/fanotify on upper dir and reading changes from upper dir is a reasonable practice. I suggested that he use fanotify filesystem mark to watch changes on overlay sb and read the changes from overlay mount. #2 TBH I lost track and you guys continued the discussion after I left. >From what I gathered we need a way to describe clones and renames more efficiently, but I did not hear any solid plan of how to do that. So perhaps you would be able to fill in some details here. Thanks, Amir.
