On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 4:38 PM Kevin Locke <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > When the lower file of a metacopy is inaccessible, -EIO is returned. > For users not familiar with overlayfs internals, such as myself, the > meaning of this error may not be apparent or easy to determine, since > the (metacopy) file is present and open/stat succeed when accessed > outside of the overlay. > > Add a rate-limited warning for orphan metacopy to give users a hint > when investigating such errors, as discussed on linux-unionfs[0]. > > [0]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-unionfs/CAOQ4uxi23Zsmfb4rCed1n=On0NNA5KZD74jjjeyz+et32sk-gg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > > Signed-off-by: Kevin Locke <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Thanks, applied. Miklos
