On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 09:21:08AM -0700, Michael Eager wrote: > On 7/19/20 2:04 PM, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 07:53:08PM +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 5:13 PM Serge E. Hallyn <se...@hallyn.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 06:53:03AM -0700, Michael Eager wrote: > > > > > On 7/18/20 8:37 PM, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 11:16:16AM -0700, Michael Eager wrote: > > > > > > > I'm running LXD on a Centos 8 host, kernel-4.18.0. I built and > > > > > > > installed > > > > > > > the shiftfs module. > > > > > > > > > > > > From what source? > > > > > > > > > > https://github.com/toby63/shiftfs-dkms > > > > > > > > Interesting. Yeah the shiftfs.c looks identical to what's in > > > > ubuntu's, but when I backported that to 4.14 I had to also take > > > > a bunch of other patches > > > > (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sergeh/linux.git/log/?h=v4.14.180-shiftfs) > > > > which may or may not be in 4.18. Still, I don't actually think > > > > that's the problem. NFS has always been difficult to use > > > > with layered filesystems. > > > > > > > > Amir, as far as you know, does overlay on top of NFS work > > > > these days? > > > > > > > > > > I know people are using it, but only as lower fs, which are files that > > > are not expected to be changed. > > > NFS is not supported as upper fs. > > > > Thanks Amir. I over-snipped, but Michael is having problems > > when NFS is the underlay for shiftfs. If overlay works fine, > > then that's an interesting complication :) > > > > I'm hoping to have some time to try it out soon. > > > > thanks, > > -serge > > If you would like me to submit a bug report, just tell me where.
Since it's shipped with the Ubuntu kernel, you could test it in an Ubuntu VM and then file it at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+filebug I don't have any better place to suggest tracking it. _______________________________________________ lxc-users mailing list lxc-users@lists.linuxcontainers.org http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users