retitle 983002 plocate: does not work with /var on overlayfs
severity 983002 normal
thanks

On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 01:20:00AM -0600, Daniel Lewart wrote:
>> Thanks for the bug report. Is there anything special about your
>> /var/lib/plocate? Unusual filesystems? SELinux permissions?
> Yes, it is a Debian Live image, so it is an Overlay filesystem
> (debian-live-testing-amd64-standard.iso).

Aha. So overlayfs simply does not support O_TMPFILE? I have a workaround for
FreeBSD that can probably be reused, but it has the usual concerns of not
going away if the process is forcibly interrupted.

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