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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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On Sun, 2016-04-03 at 06:11 -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 5:58 AM, Robert Yang <
> liezhi.yang@windriver.com> wrote:
> > So that iso can work well, otherwise the iso is readonly and there
> > would
> > be errors. The other way is aufs, but overlayfs is more pupolar and
> > had
> > been merged by kernel mainline, we need make iso work well by
> > default.
> Nope. As I mentioned before, this can't be a always on default. It
> will conflict
> with other unionFS use cases.
> 
> If you want overlayfs enabled, it needs to be triggered from a
> specific image
> or distro feature.

We can't change the kernel config from an image so it would have to be
a distro setting. Is there a problem with enabling both as modules btw?
I assume they can coexist?

Cheers,

Richard