Re: Replacing aufs with overlayfs

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Subject: Re: Replacing aufs with overlayfs
From: intrigeri <intrigeri@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 15:57:21 +0100
Message-id: <[🔎] 85a8zi1cxa.fsf@boum.org>
In-reply-to: <1418154910.3599.44.camel@decadent.org.uk> (Ben Hutchings's message of "Tue, 09 Dec 2014 19:55:10 +0000")
References: <1418154910.3599.44.camel@decadent.org.uk>

Hi Ben,

[dropping -live@ from the Cc list, as this is not specific to Live
systems, and affects e.g. some setups based on Linux containers.]

Ben Hutchings wrote (09 Dec 2014 19:55:10 GMT) :
> Please try the Linux 3.18 packages from experimental (they're not there
> yet, but should be soon) and check that overlayfs does what you need.

FYI, at the upstream AppArmor IRC meeting a few days ago, I've learnt
that overlayfs and AppArmor don't play well together yet.

* Some IRC log excerpts that provide more detail:
  https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/9045

* The AppArmor bug that tracks this issue:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/apparmor/+bug/1408106

Cheers,
-- 
intrigeri

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