Re: How to support directory opacity in a filesystem for overlayfs to use?

[Miklos Szeredi]

On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 at 16:15, David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> What's the best way for a network filesystem to make a native
> directory-is-opaque flag available to the system?  Is it best to catch
> setxattr/getxattr/removexattr("overlay.opaque") and translate these into the
> RPCs to wrangle the flag?

I don't know.  Out of curiosity, which filesystem is it?

There's "trusted.overlay.opaque" and "user.overlay.opaque" and are
used in different scenarios.   There was also talk of making the
"trusted." namespace nest inside user namespaces, but apparently it's
not so important.

Which one would you like to emulate?

Thanks,
Miklos