On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 11:04:28AM -0500, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > > On 12/14/2016 10:38 AM, Dusty Mabe wrote: > > > > On 12/14/2016 07:51 AM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > >> I have heard that the issue with yum/rpm is being worked on in the kernel. > >> For those that to not know the issue is for programs that open a file twice > >> once for readonly and then later for read/write. In the first open the > >> file is > >> on the lower file system. When you open the second time for read/write, > >> Overlay does a COPY/UP which creates a separate file. The program thinks > >> that it has the same file opened twice, but it actually has two different > >> files > >> open. > > That is great information. Is there an issue somewhere where we can > > track the progress of the "fix"? > > > > Dusty > Vivek do you have an answer to this?
I noticed that miklos has posted patches for this upstream. http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=148058731527269&w=2 Vivek