From: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
To: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>,
overlayfs <linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] ovl: alllow remote upper
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 21:02:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOQ4uxgfTJwE2O1GGt-TY+6ijjKE13+ATTarijFGLiM69jk8HA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200316175453.GB4013@redhat.com>
On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 8:15 PM Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 03:16:28PM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 10:00 PM Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 9:52 AM Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 7:02 PM Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 6:17 PM Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 3:59 PM Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 12:50:04PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > > > > > > > No reason to prevent upper layer being a remote filesystem. Do the
> > > > > > > > revalidation in that case, just as we already do for lower layers.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > This lets virtiofs be used as upper layer, which appears to be a real use
> > > > > > > > case.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Hi Miklos,
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I have couple of very basic questions.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > - So with this change, we will allow NFS to be upper layer also?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I haven't tested, but I think it will fail on the d_type test.
> > > > >
> > > > > But we do not fail mount on no d_type support...
> > > > > Besides, I though you were going to add the RENAME_WHITEOUT
> > > > > test to avert untested network fs as upper.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Pushed strict remote upper check to:
> > > > https://github.com/amir73il/linux/commits/ovl-strict-upper
> > > >
> >
> > Vivek,
> >
> > Could you please make sure that the code in ovl-strict-upper branch
> > works as expected for virtio as upper fs?
>
> Hi Amir,
>
> Right now it fails becuase virtiofs doesn't seem to support tmpfile yet.
>
> overlayfs: upper fs does not support tmpfile
> overlayfs: upper fs missing required features.
>
> Will have to check what's required to support it.
>
> I also wanted to run either overlay xfstests or unionmount-testsuite. But
> none of these seem to give me enough flexibility where I can specify
> that overlayfs needs to be mounted on top of virtiofs.
>
> I feel that atleast for unionmount-testsuite, there should be an
> option where we can simply give a target directory and tests run
> on that directory and user mounts that directory as needed.
>
Need to see how patches look.
Don't want too much configuration complexity, but I agree that some
flexibly is needed.
Maybe the provided target directory should be the upper/work basedir?
> > I have rebased it on latest overlayfs-next merge into current master.
> >
> > I would very much prefer that the code merged to v5.7-rc1 will be more
> > restrictive than the current overlayfs-next.
>
> In general I agree that if we want to not support some configuration
> with remote upper, this is the time to introduce that restriction
> otherwise we will later run into backward compatibility issue.
>
> Having said that, tmpfile support for upper sounds like a nice to
> have feature. Not sure why to make it mandatory.
>
Agreed, I just went automatic on all the warnings.
tmpfile should not be a requirement for upper.
Could you please verify that if dropping the tmpfile strict check,
virtio can be used as upper.
Thanks,
Amir.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-16 19:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-31 11:50 [PATCH 0/4] ovl: allow virtiofs as upper Miklos Szeredi
2020-01-31 11:50 ` [PATCH 1/4] ovl: restructure dentry revalidation Miklos Szeredi
2020-01-31 11:50 ` [PATCH 2/4] ovl: separate detection of remote upper layer from stacked overlay Miklos Szeredi
2020-01-31 11:50 ` [PATCH 3/4] ovl: decide if revalidate needed on a per-dentry bases Miklos Szeredi
2020-01-31 14:53 ` Amir Goldstein
2020-01-31 15:15 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-01-31 11:50 ` [PATCH 4/4] ovl: alllow remote upper Miklos Szeredi
2020-01-31 15:29 ` Amir Goldstein
2020-01-31 15:38 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-01-31 15:50 ` Amir Goldstein
2020-01-31 16:05 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-02-04 14:59 ` Vivek Goyal
2020-02-04 16:16 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-02-04 17:02 ` Amir Goldstein
2020-02-04 18:42 ` Vivek Goyal
2020-02-04 19:11 ` Amir Goldstein
2020-02-04 19:16 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-02-20 7:52 ` Amir Goldstein
2020-02-20 20:00 ` Amir Goldstein
2020-03-14 13:16 ` Amir Goldstein
2020-03-16 17:54 ` Vivek Goyal
2020-03-16 19:02 ` Amir Goldstein [this message]
2020-03-16 19:40 ` Vivek Goyal
2020-03-18 13:36 ` unionmount testsuite with upper virtiofs Amir Goldstein
2020-03-19 21:40 ` Vivek Goyal
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