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Bug#797601: marked as done (linux-base: overlayfs rename to overlay causes issues with other packages)

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regarding linux-base: overlayfs rename to overlay causes issues with other packages
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Package: linux-base
Version: 4.0
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

The kernel has renamed overlayfs to overlay:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ef94b1864d1ed5be54376404bb23d22ed0481feb

However, it expected distributions to keep the old name around, because userspace software might rely on it.

And it definitely does. lxc, at version 1.0.7 in debian/unstable, relies on overlayfs for its lxc-clone facilities. At lxc 1.1.1, it has added support for the name "overlay".

It means that right now, lxc-clone cannot be used on debian, since both packages don't support each other.

Regards,
Florian Margaine

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On Mon, 2015-08-31 at 22:01 +0200, Florian Margaine wrote:
> Package: linux-base
> Version: 4.0
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> The kernel has renamed overlayfs to overlay:
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commi
> t/?id=ef94b1864d1ed5be54376404bb23d22ed0481feb
> 
> However, it expected distributions to keep the old name around, 
> because userspace software might rely on it.
[...]

No, it allows distributions to carry the out-of-tree overlayfs as
"overlayfs".  But we never had overlayfs before this.

Ben.

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