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Commit 7eaa995c authored by Vivek Goyal's avatar Vivek Goyal Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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ovl: warn instead of error if d_type is not supported

commit e7c0b5991dd1be7b6f6dc2b54a15a0f47b64b007 upstream.

overlay needs underlying fs to support d_type. Recently I put in a
patch in to detect this condition and started failing mount if
underlying fs did not support d_type.

But this breaks existing configurations over kernel upgrade. Those who
are running docker (partially broken configuration) with xfs not
supporting d_type, are surprised that after kernel upgrade docker does
not run anymore.

https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/22937#issuecomment-229881315



So instead of erroring out, detect broken configuration and warn
about it. This should allow existing docker setups to continue
working after kernel upgrade.

Signed-off-by: default avatarVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Fixes: 45aebeaf4f67 ("ovl: Ensure upper filesystem supports d_type")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> 4.6
Signed-off-by: default avatarSZ Lin (林上智) <sz.lin@moxa.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 0f9a6d88
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