overlayfs -- the kernel's version, not fuse-overlayfs -- recently learned
(as of linux 5.16.0, I believe) how to support rootless users. Previously,
rootless users had to use these storage.conf(5) settings:
* storage.driver=vfs (aka STORAGE_DRIVER=vfs), or
* storage.driver=overlay (aka STORAGE_DRIVER=overlay),
storage.options.overlay.mount_program=/usr/bin/fuse-overlayfs
(aka STORAGE_OPTS=/usr/bin/fuse-overlayfs)
Now that a third backend is available, setting only:
* storage.driver=overlay (aka STORAGE_DRIVER=overlay)
https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/13123 reported EXDEV errors
during the normal operation of their container. Tracing it out, the
problem turned out to be that their container was being mounted without
'userxattr'; I don't fully understand why, but mount(8) mentions this is
needed for rootless users:
> userxattr
>
> Use the "user.overlay." xattr namespace instead of "trusted.overlay.".
> This is useful for unprivileged mounting of overlayfs.
https://github.com/containers/storage/pull/1156 found and fixed the issue
in podman, and this just pulls in that via
go get github.com/containers/storage@ebc90ab
go mod vendor
make vendor
Closes https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/13123
Signed-off-by: Nick Guenther <nick.guenther@polymtl.ca>
This vendor will improve the performance of using userns
since it will save aside the image layer of the chown, so
followup runnings of podman will use the new layer rather
then chowning again.
Signed-off-by: Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>
Closes: #881
Approved by: mheon
