[Lxc-users] Rootfs as rw overlay on top of ro directory

[Rob Landley]

On 06/11/2013 04:07:27 AM, Ivan Vilata i Balaguer wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm doing some tests on containers having a union rootfs (using Aufs  
> in
> Debian) consisting of a writable directory overlaid on top of a
> read-only mount coming from a Squashfs image file.  The configuration
> described below seems to work pretty well with lxc 0.9.0.alpha3 and
> Linux 3.8.13-1 (on Debian Sid), at least when the writable directory  
> is
> a plain one and not a mountpoint (see below).

Actually "overlayfs" is the one Linus told Al Viro to include:

   http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1303.1/02476.html

Might want to focus on the one that's actually going into the kernel,  
unless there's more recent developments I missed?

Rob