OverlayFS is a union mount filesystem that presents an overlay a read/write partition (typically tmpfs) over a read-only partition. An implementation has been available in the Linux kernel since 2014.
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How to sync two overlay network shares?
There is a ceph mount on two nodes. The content should be available to applications running on one of the two nodes but they should not make changes to the content. Instead I want those applications to make their changes synced on another place…
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How to enable password policy on readonly filesystem?
I'm using a read-only filesystem (squashfs). I've used the overlays file system to mount /etc directory. I can change the password using passwd command.
I've included libpam & libpwquality packages to enable the strong password policy. I see the…
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transparent management of scratch fs on cluster node
I have a cluster made of 5 node, the node 1 host a big file-system exported via NFS to other nodes.
The other nodes have a fast nvme disks used for scratch.
I would like to encourage users to work on scratch as much as possible, thus I would like to…
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Filesystem to protect the storage medium
I'm working on an embedded system which will act as a server, the problem is the environment where it will run is so aggressive and it will suffer abrupt power interruptions. So I'm planning to mount the root filesystem as fake-writable using…
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Which docker storage driver for new server with NVMe drives?
I am building new server for GitLab CI jobs.
Currently we already have one home-made.
It's using classic HDDs + SSDs for caching so I chose ZFS storage driver which is not performing optimally.
New server will consist only of two NVMe SSDs so I…
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