Re: [GIT PULL] overlayfs update for 4.8

[Miklos Szeredi]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 9:26 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 4:20 AM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> First of all, this fixes a regression in overlayfs introduced by the dentry hash
>> salting.  I've moved the patch fixing this to the front of the queue, so if (god
>> forbid) something needs to be bisected in overlayfs this regression won't
>> interfere with that.
>
> Thanks, I had missed that completely, and while I build overlayfs for
> testing, I don't have any actual tests of it.
>

If you want a quick overlayfs test, do "mkdir -p /lower /upper; ./run --ov" from

  git://git.infradead.org/users/dhowells/unionmount-testsuite.git

It takes 17sec on my laptop.

Thanks,
Miklos