Re: [PATCH 3/3] ovl: Use real disk UUID for origin file handles

[Amir Goldstein]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 4:59 PM André Almeida <andrealmeid@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Em 06/02/2026 10:12, Amir Goldstein escreveu:
> > On Thu, Feb 5, 2026 at 9:34 PM André Almeida <andrealmeid@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> Anyhow, I see that we are now too close to the merge window, and from my
> >> side we can delay this for 7.1 and merge it when it gets 100% clear that
> >> this is the solution that we are looking for.
> >>
> >
> > I pushed this patch to overlayfs-next branch.
> > It is an internal logic change in overlayfs that does not conflict with
> > other code, so there should not be a problem to send a PR on the
> > second half of the 7.0 merge window if this is useful.
> >
> > I think that the change itself makes sense because there was never
> > a justification for the strict rule of both upper/lower on the same fs
> > for uuid=off, but I am still not going to send it without knowing that
> > someone finds this useful for their workload.
> >
>
> Hi Amir,
>
> I can confirm that this is useful for my workload. After correctly
> setting this flag for every mount, everything is working good and we can
> bypass the random UUID issues. Thank you for your help!

OK, PR sent.

Thanks,
Amir.