From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
To: Fabian Vogt <fvogt@suse.de>
Cc: linux-unionfs <linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org>,
Ignaz Forster <iforster@suse.de>
Subject: Re: overlayfs does not pin underlying layers
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2019 15:19:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJfpeguBxP7QPSr9UO6yzPpWHJ+fAckozQ823u5hPY76kqYjSQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7817498.QaoxCVBQX0@linux-e202.suse.de>
On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 2:49 PM Fabian Vogt <fvogt@suse.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I noticed that you can still unmount the lower/upper/work layers, even if
> they're currently part of an active overlay mount. This is the case even when
> files in the overlay mount are currently open. After unmounting, the usual
> effects of a lazy umount can be observed, like still active loop devices.
>
> Is this intentional?
It's a known feature. Not sure how much thought was given to this,
but nobody took notice up till now.
Do you have a good reason for wanting the underlying mounts pinned, or
you are just surprised by this behavior? In the latter case we can
just add a paragraph to the documentation and be done with it.
Thanks,
Miklos
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-03 14:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-03 13:49 overlayfs does not pin underlying layers Fabian Vogt
2019-12-03 14:19 ` Miklos Szeredi [this message]
2019-12-04 17:05 ` Fabian Vogt
2019-12-04 17:56 ` Amir Goldstein
2019-12-04 20:36 ` Miklos Szeredi
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