From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Josh England <jjengla@gmail.com>
Cc: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org,
Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: overlayfs: allowing for changes to lowerdir
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 19:44:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170228194457.GU29622@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+ZH+jE0k2hKoWTMZ2g-5vfU95OFxbW=WxGEC-umQM51vcC1gQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 11:08:31AM -0800, Josh England wrote:
> The behavior I've noted so far from this patch seems to be very well
> defined and follows the rule of least surprise (at least for me). I
> can change files/directories in the shared root and the changes are
> instantly visible to all clients. If a file/directory has been copied
> up on the client that change takes precedence over changes in the
> lower. Deletes work as expected. I haven't found a downside yet.
Try to do something that invalidates a directory in underlying layer
with stuff in overlay on its subdirectories.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-28 19:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-13 21:41 overlayfs: allowing for changes to lowerdir Josh England
2017-02-14 14:01 ` Amir Goldstein
2017-02-14 17:14 ` Josh England
2017-02-21 23:08 ` Josh England
2017-02-22 9:00 ` Ian Kent
2017-02-27 10:40 ` Amir Goldstein
2017-02-28 19:08 ` Josh England
2017-02-28 19:44 ` Al Viro [this message]
2017-03-01 11:15 ` Amir Goldstein
2017-03-01 18:22 ` Josh England
2017-03-01 20:22 ` Colin Walters
2017-03-09 10:37 ` Miklos Szeredi
2017-03-09 11:22 ` Amir Goldstein
2017-03-09 13:12 ` Miklos Szeredi
2017-02-15 1:29 ` J. R. Okajima
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