Re: [PATCH] ovl: change error message to info for empty lowerdir

From: Eric Curtin
Date: Tue May 28 2024 - 06:55:40 EST


On Tue, 28 May 2024 at 11:34, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Tue, 28 May 2024 at 11:03, Eric Curtin <ecurtin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > In some deployments, an empty lowerdir is not considered an error.
>
> I don't think this can be triggered in upstream kernel and can be
> removed completely.

True... Just switched to Fedora Rawhide and instead we just see this one:

pr_err("cannot append lower layer");

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> Or do you have a reproducer?

Run one of these vms:

https://github.com/osbuild/bootc-image-builder

And on boot:

sudo bootc switch quay.io/fedora/fedora-bootc:rawhide && sudo reboot

is the reproducer that is closest to upstream

Is mise le meas/Regards,

Eric Curtin

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> Thanks,
> Miklos
>