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From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Subject: Re: Unionmount status?
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:31:26 +0200
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On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz> =
wrote:
> On 14 April 2011 10:38, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.c=
z> wrote:
>>> On 13 April 2011 16:18, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> wrote:
>>>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/3/22/222
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for pointing out this announcement.
>>>
>>> However, neither this announcement nor the document
>>> Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt included in the git tree
>>> details how to mount the filesystem. Without that it is kind of
>>> useless.
>>
>> Oh, I'll fix that in the docs. =C2=A0Thanks for pointing it out.
>>
>> Here's how to mount:
>>
>> =C2=A0mount -t overlayfs overlayfs -olowerdir=3D/lower -oupperdir=3D=
/upper /overlay
>>
>
> OK, I built a small live CD with the v7 patch and I can boot it but I
> get errors like
>
> Cleaning up temporary files...
> [ =C2=A0 =C2=A0nn.nnnnnn] overlayfs: ERROR - failed to whiteout 'motd=
'
> find: cannot delete `./motd': Operation not supported

What is the upper filesystem type?  Is xattr support enabled?

Thanks,
Miklos