From: Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>,
Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
overlayfs <linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] ovl: introduce new "uuid=off" option for inodes index feature
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 16:54:38 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <abac619b-dec4-8179-cb59-52c8f14422a1@virtuozzo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJfpegvgmnWrmsACuWe_hYCfVm2r0Ltv0C+sN+3T1DBMzrGE9w@mail.gmail.com>
On 10/6/20 6:13 PM, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 10:35 AM Pavel Tikhomirov
> <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com> wrote:
>
>> Note: In our (Virtuozzo) use case users inside a container can create
>> "regular" overlayfs mounts without any "index=" option, but we still
>> want to migrate this containers with CRIU so we set "index=on" as kernel
>> default so that all the container overlayfs mounts get support of file
>> handles automatically. With "uuid=off" we want the same thing (to be
>> able to "copy" container with uuid change) - we would set kernel default
>> so that all the container overlayfs mounts get "uuid=off" automatically.
>
> I'm not sure I buy that argument for a kernel option. It should
> rather be a "container" option in that case, but AFAIK the kernel
> doesn't have a concept of a container. I think this needs to be
> discussed on the relevant mailing lists.
>
> As of now mainline kernel doesn't support unprivileged overlay mounts,
> so I guess this is not an issue. Let's just merge this without the
> kernel and the module options.
Virtuozzo kernel does have a "container" concept and we do have
unprivileged overlay mounts to support docker inside Virtuozzo
containers. We don't face any major issues with it. But you are right
it's not mainstream.
Probably a normal user of mainstream kernel also might want to set
index=on+uuid=off by default, so that all their docker containters
automatically support inotifies and survive backing disk uuid change
automaticaly.
I will prepare next patchset version without default.
>
> Thanks,
> Miklos
>
--
Best regards, Tikhomirov Pavel
Software Developer, Virtuozzo.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-13 13:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-25 8:35 [PATCH v4 0/2] ovl introduce "uuid=off" Pavel Tikhomirov
2020-09-25 8:35 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] ovl: propagate ovl_fs to ovl_decode_real_fh and ovl_encode_real_fh Pavel Tikhomirov
2020-09-25 16:37 ` Amir Goldstein
2020-09-25 8:35 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] ovl: introduce new "uuid=off" option for inodes index feature Pavel Tikhomirov
2020-09-25 16:42 ` Amir Goldstein
2020-09-28 7:22 ` Pavel Tikhomirov
2020-10-06 15:13 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-10-13 13:54 ` Pavel Tikhomirov [this message]
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