Test procedure: In 3.16.0-57-generic: $ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/lower/f1 bs=4096 count=550000 550000+0 records in 550000+0 records out 2252800000 bytes (2.3 GB) copied, 4.00938 s, 562 MB/s $ sudo mount -t overlayfs overlayfs -olowerdir=/lower,upperdir=/upper /mnt/overlayfs $ sudo chmod 666 /mnt/overlayfs/f1 chmod: changing permissions of ‘f1’: Value too large for defined data type
Rebooted into 3.16.0-58-generic: $ sudo mount -t overlayfs overlayfs -olowerdir=/lower,upperdir=/upper /mnt/overlayfs $ sudo chmod 666 /mnt/overlayfs/f1 $ echo $? 0 ** Tags removed: verification-needed-utopic ** Tags added: verification-done-utopic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux-lts-utopic in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1523000 Title: writing files larger than 2GB to overlayfs fails Status in linux-lts-utopic package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in linux-lts-vivid package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in linux-lts-utopic source package in Trusty: Fix Committed Status in linux-lts-vivid source package in Trusty: Fix Released Bug description: There's simply a missing flag, which was fixed here: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=0480334 The patch claims it requires kernel 3.18+, but the overlayfs code in ubuntu's 3.16 kernel is already backported from later kernel revs. break-fix: - 0480334fa60488d12ae101a02d7d9e1a3d03d7dd To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-lts-utopic/+bug/1523000/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
