Re: [atomic-devel] Fedora 26 change: using overlayfs as default

[Daniel J Walsh]

On 12/14/2016 10:38 AM, Dusty Mabe wrote:
>
> On 12/14/2016 07:51 AM, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>> I have heard that the issue with yum/rpm is being worked on in the kernel.
>> For those that to not know the issue is for programs that open a file twice
>> once for readonly and then later for read/write.  In the first open the file 
>> is
>> on the lower file system.  When you open the second time for read/write,
>> Overlay does a COPY/UP which creates a separate file.  The program thinks
>> that it has the same file opened twice, but it actually has two different 
>> files
>> open.
> That is great information. Is there an issue somewhere where we can
> track the progress of the "fix"?
>
> Dusty
Vivek do you have an answer to this?