Thank you for the detailed explanation. Since the underlying problem is that overlayfs is not (yet very) namespace aware, this issue may be intractable.
Naive question regarding copy-up: Do the files in the upperdir and lowerdir need to have the same owner? If not, could copy-up be amended so that it behaves similarly to the copying of a root-owned file by a non-root user? Ie the ownership of the file in the upperdir could change to that of the user doing the copying/deleting. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1617388 Title: When using overlayfs with kernel 4.4, some files cannot be deleted. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1617388/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
