From: L A Walsh <lkml@tlinx.org>
To: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Cc: overlayfs <linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: odd error: why: mount: /home2: mount(2) system call failed: Stale file handle
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2021 12:34:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6071FDE0.2070009@tlinx.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOQ4uxj4bdzcdcy7jpkRCZTNv=4b8BPVVP+1L_3OLWFwMnV-kQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 2021/04/08 22:44, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> It is generally not allowed to reuse the upper layer and replace the
> lower layers after overlayfs has been mounted once.
>
> If you say you did not change anything, it is not clear what is the
> benefit of reusing the empty upper layer.
>
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I can understand that, the upper layer is an empty fs+work dir
with no changes. It was attached to the wrong lower layer,
unattached/unmounted.
I then made sure both upper+work were both empty and tried again
elsewhere. I want to avoid unnecessary steps, so destroying and recreating
an empty partition didn't seem logical. How do you disassociate a
previous connected state? What needs to be initialized on the
unmounted upper and working dir (on the same fs), to reuse the same
file system?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-10 19:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-08 18:58 odd error: why: mount: /home2: mount(2) system call failed: Stale file handle L. A. Walsh
2021-04-09 5:44 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-04-10 19:34 ` L A Walsh [this message]
2021-04-11 4:45 ` Amir Goldstein
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