On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 04:43:05PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > Stacking file operations in overlay will store an extra open file for each > overlay file opened. > > The overhead is just that of "struct file" which is about 256bytes, because > overlay already pins an extra dentry and inode when the file is open, which > add up to a much larger overhead.
But that overhead is exactly what nr_files accounts for, so this looks bogus to me.
