i can confirm that overlayfs works flawlessly on both unstable and testing, but lb-config doesn't offer an option to choose the proper union module
if live-build doesn't properly set the LB_UNION_FILESYSTEM, i have seen that appending the following line to auto/config is a good workaround sed -i "s/LB_UNION_FILESYSTEM=\"aufs\"/LB_UNION_FILESYSTEM=\"overlay\"/g" config/chroot On February 9, 2017 8:31:42 AM GMT+01:00, Andreas Heinlein <aheinl...@gmx.com> wrote: >The kernels from jessie-backports definitely do not contain aufs >anymore. IIRC, aufs-dkms did not build against the backport kernels. >Aufs was dropped in favour of overlayfs, which should be supported in >the current unstable release of live-build.