Hi, On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 21:36:55 +0300 Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote: > Control: tags -1 moreinfo > > On Lu, 29 iun 20, 10:31:02, Holger Levsen wrote: > > package: release-notes > > x-debbugs-cc: Timo Weingärtner <timo.weingaertner@itscope.de>, Jan Luca Naumann <j.naumann@fu-berlin.de>, 963191@bugs.debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org > > > > in #963191 on Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 10:06:33AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 09:32:09AM +0200, Timo Weingärtner wrote: > > > > 20.06.20 13:26 Bastian Blank: > > > > > Since the kernel supports overlayfs since some time now, what blocks > > > > > it's removal? > > > > There are Debian installations on filesystems that are incompatible with > > > > overlayfs, for example xfs without d_type. > > > > I ran into this while trying to get rid of aufs. > > > So we need to document this problem in the release notes. That's an > > > easy task. > > Some more details (or even better, suggested wording) would be much > appreciated, just in case none of the Release Notes editors are familiar > with XFS and 'd_type'. I have no clue. Would all users of XFS know what d_type is? What are their options? The question of zigo (adding d_type to to an existing xfs of ftype=0 and/or conversion tool from ftype=0 to ftype=1) in 963191 went unanswered. Paul
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