Re: [PATCH] ovl: make fsync after metadata copy-up opt-in mount option

On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 7:04 PM Chenglong Tang <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Regarding the patch: because we are currently locked to the 6.12 LTS
> kernel, this patch doesn't apply cleanly to our tree (due to missing
> mainline dependencies like the str_on_off helper).

Hence:
Depends: 50e638beb67e0 ("ovl: Use str_on_off() helper in ovl_show_options()")
I added it for bots and humans that do backporting to 6.12.

It is not a "real" dependency. It is a weak dependency for clean apply
which works well for 6.12.y.

>
> Since we are actively tracking this for a Google COS customer
> escalation, do you have a rough timeline for when you expect this to
> be merged into mainline and subsequently picked up by the 6.12 stable
> queue?
>

It's queued on the ovl-fixes branch to be merged into linux-next
tonight.

If there are no rejects from bots or humans, I plan to send it to Linus
before the weekend.

> We will officially pull it into the COS tree as soon as it lands in
> linux-stable.
>
> Thanks again for the excellent support,

Your report was very informative and well prepared.
This helps :)

Thanks,
Amir.