<div dir="ltr"><div>I have created a container say base and I am trying to create a clone of the base container with backing store as overlayfs. But it always fails with the following error,<br></div><div><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:19.5px"><br></span></div><div><pre style="margin-top:0px;padding:5px;border:0px;font-size:13px;overflow:auto;width:auto;max-height:600px;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,'Lucida Console','Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace,sans-serif;word-wrap:normal;background-color:rgb(238,238,238)"><code style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,'Lucida Console','Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace,sans-serif;white-space:inherit">lxc_container: bdev.c: overlayfs_mount: 2237 No such device - overlayfs: error mounting /var/lib/lxc/base/rootfs onto /usr/lib64/lxc/rootfs options upperdir=/var/lib/lxc/s0/delta0,lowerdir=/var/lib/lxc/base/rootfs,workdir=/var/lib/lxc/s0/olwork
clone failed</code></pre></div><div><br></div><div>It's because the name of the overlay filesystem changed from overlayfs to overlay at some point. Support for this was made after the release of lxc 1.0.7. Any one has tried LXC in Centos 7 and is there any work around for this issue?</div><div><br></div>Regards,<br><div class="gmail_signature">Vishnu</div>
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