On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 12:00 PM Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Just so you know, Android is another "system image provider" project > > > whose developers were talking about using overlayfs to provide > > > "debug mode", wherein developers can modify system files. > > > This is the use case for the proposed override_creds=off feature [1]. > > > > > > I do not know if this mode was deployed on existing phones, but anyway, > > > it is not enabled in production mode, so it limits very much the problem > > > of conflict resolution. > > I'm not sure about what You mean exactly, but I'll try to check it > > if You so suggest. > > > > There is nothing for you to check. > Only informing you of another user that may be doing the same thing that > you do and expects it to continue working. > > FWIW, if Android *are* using overlayfs like this they should encounter > the same problem you encountered and the upstream fix will not solve it.... > Correction. I made the same mistake before when posting the patch and Miklos corrected me. Lower fs with UUID (ext4/f2fs) does not suffer from the specific problem that the fix commit fixes. Thanks, Amir.
