Re: Unionmount status?

[Miklos Szeredi]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Michal Suchanek <hramrach@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 15 April 2011 13:31, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Michal Suchanek <hramrach@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Cleaning up temporary files...
>>> [ Â Ânn.nnnnnn] overlayfs: ERROR - failed to whiteout 'motd'
>>> find: cannot delete `./motd': Operation not supported
>>
>> What is the upper filesystem type? ÂIs xattr support enabled?
>>
>
> The upper filesystem is tmpfs and there is not option regarding XATTR
> in the config.

Apparently tmpfs does not support generic xattr.  I understand why
tmpfs is an attractive choice for an upper filesystem, so this should
be addressed.

I see two options here:

1) implement generic xattr in tmpfs
2) take whiteout/opaque support from union mounts and use that

Both have advantages and disadvantages.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Miklos
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