Major differences from existing overlay filesystems:
- Linux allows lower layers in an overlay to require revalidation, but not the
upper layer. VFS1 allows the upper layer in an overlay to require
revalidation, but not the lower layer. VFS2 does not allow any layers to
require revalidation. (Now that vfs.MkdirOptions.ForSyntheticMountpoint
exists, no uses of overlay in VFS1 are believed to require upper layer
revalidation; in particular, the requirement that the upper layer support the
creation of "trusted." extended attributes for whiteouts effectively required
the upper filesystem to be tmpfs in most cases.)
- Like VFS1, but unlike Linux, VFS2 overlay does not attempt to make mutations
of the upper layer atomic using a working directory and features like
RENAME_WHITEOUT. (This may change in the future, since not having a working
directory makes error recovery for some operations, e.g. rmdir, particularly
painful.)
- Like Linux, but unlike VFS1, VFS2 represents whiteouts using character
devices with rdev == 0; the equivalent of the whiteout attribute on
directories is xattr trusted.overlay.opaque = "y"; and there is no equivalent
to the whiteout attribute on non-directories since non-directories are never
merged with lower layers.
- Device and inode numbers work as follows:
- In Linux, modulo the xino feature and a special case for when all layers
are the same filesystem:
- Directories use the overlay filesystem's device number and an
ephemeral inode number assigned by the overlay.
- Non-directories that have been copied up use the device and inode
number assigned by the upper filesystem.
- Non-directories that have not been copied up use a per-(overlay,
layer)-pair device number and the inode number assigned by the lower
filesystem.
- In VFS1, device and inode numbers always come from the lower layer unless
"whited out"; this has the adverse effect of requiring interaction with
the lower filesystem even for non-directory files that exist on the upper
layer.
- In VFS2, device and inode numbers are assigned as in Linux, except that
xino and the samefs special case are not supported.
- Like Linux, but unlike VFS1, VFS2 does not attempt to maintain memory mapping
coherence across copy-up. (This may have to change in the future, as users
may be dependent on this property.)
- Like Linux, but unlike VFS1, VFS2 uses the overlayfs mounter's credentials
when interacting with the overlay's layers, rather than the caller's.
- Like Linux, but unlike VFS1, VFS2 permits multiple lower layers in an
overlay.
- Like Linux, but unlike VFS1, VFS2's overlay filesystem is
application-mountable.
Updates #1199
PiperOrigin-RevId: 316019067
Run vs. exec, VFS1 vs. VFS2 were executable lookup were
slightly different from each other. Combine them all
into the same logic.
PiperOrigin-RevId: 315426443
This is mostly syscall plumbing, VFS2 already implements the internals of
mounts. In addition to the syscall defintions, the following mount-related
mechanisms are updated:
- Implement MS_NOATIME for VFS2, but only for tmpfs and goferfs. The other VFS2
filesystems don't implement node-level timestamps yet.
- Implement the 'mode', 'uid' and 'gid' mount options for VFS2's tmpfs.
- Plumb mount namespace ownership, which is necessary for checking appropriate
capabilities during mount(2).
Updates #1035
PiperOrigin-RevId: 315035352
- Add /tmp handling
- Apply mount options
- Enable more container_test tests
- Forward signals to child process when test respaws process
to run as root inside namespace.
Updates #1487
PiperOrigin-RevId: 314263281
Synthetic sockets do not have the race condition issue in VFS2, and we will
get rid of privateunixsocket as well.
Fixes#1200.
PiperOrigin-RevId: 310386474
This change includes:
- Modifications to loader_test.go to get TestCreateMountNamespace to
pass with VFS2.
- Changes necessary to get TestHelloWorld in image tests to pass with
VFS2. This means runsc can run the hello-world container with docker
on VSF2.
Note: Containers that use sockets will not run with these changes.
See "//test/image/...". Any tests here with sockets currently fail
(which is all of them but HelloWorld).
PiperOrigin-RevId: 308363072
Included:
- loader_test.go RunTest and TestStartSignal VFS2
- container_test.go TestAppExitStatus on VFS2
- experimental flag added to runsc to turn on VFS2
Note: shared mounts are not yet supported.
PiperOrigin-RevId: 307070753
Jamie Liu
Fabricio Voznika
Rahat Mahmood
Nicolas Lacasse
Dean Deng
Zach Koopmans