Hi, On 18-03-2021 10:55, Paul Gevers wrote: > 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. Ping, anybody? Paul
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