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List:       opensuse-factory
Subject:    Re: Heads up: UsrMerge impact imminent
From:       Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel () suse ! de>
Date:       2021-08-02 15:57:10
Message-ID: 323a21d7-8e05-d0ff-8ccf-fd13d7f7f9cf () suse ! de
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Christoph Holtermann wrote:
> I ran into problems during update. The problem is stated in this error message:
> UsrMerge conversion dos not work on overlayfs
> 
> I have two Tumbleweed installations from live systems that use overlayfs. Both are \
> broken, at the second one I was more cautious and did not proceed update. So it's \
> in a working broken state. 
> I'm not really sure which way to go. Is it possible to do the necessary steps \
> manually on overlayfs? Could someone give me a hint what to do, is there a manual?

You could install compat-usrmerge-tools manually and remove the early
exit for overlayfs from /usr/libexec/convertfs. Call that script to see
whether the fallback to unsafe rename works there. No idea if that can
work at all, so no promises.
Not sure how sensible TW on overlayfs is anyway. Over time I suppose
there's nothing left that's actually used from the lower layer.

cu
Ludwig

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