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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 2/2] ovl: introduce new "uuid=off" option for inodes index feature
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On 10/6/20 6:13 PM, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 10:35 AM Pavel Tikhomirov
> <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com> wrote:
>
>> Note: In our (Virtuozzo) use case users inside a container can create
>> "regular" overlayfs mounts without any "index=" option, but we still
>> want to migrate this containers with CRIU so we set "index=on" as kernel
>> default so that all the container overlayfs mounts get support of file
>> handles automatically. With "uuid=off" we want the same thing (to be
>> able to "copy" container with uuid change) - we would set kernel default
>> so that all the container overlayfs mounts get "uuid=off" automatically.
>
> I'm not sure I buy that argument for a kernel option. It should
> rather be a "container" option in that case, but AFAIK the kernel
> doesn't have a concept of a container. I think this needs to be
> discussed on the relevant mailing lists.
>
> As of now mainline kernel doesn't support unprivileged overlay mounts,
> so I guess this is not an issue. Let's just merge this without the
> kernel and the module options.

Virtuozzo kernel does have a "container" concept and we do have
unprivileged overlay mounts to support docker inside Virtuozzo
containers. We don't face any major issues with it. But you are right
it's not mainstream.

Probably a normal user of mainstream kernel also might want to set
index=on+uuid=off by default, so that all their docker containters
automatically support inotifies and survive backing disk uuid change
automaticaly.

I will prepare next patchset version without default.

>
> Thanks,
> Miklos
>

--
Best regards, Tikhomirov Pavel
Software Developer, Virtuozzo.

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