Re: [PATCH] ovl: Allow changing default fsync_mode

Gao Xiang <[email protected]> Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:47:27 +0800
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-unionfs,org.kernel.vger.linux-fsdevel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Christoph,

On 2026/6/23 21:42, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> I have no idea where this coming from as I can't find an earlier
> version in the fsdevel archives.  But changing user visible mount
> options through konfig options is simply bonkers.
> 
> I'd also like to not that the submitter does have a history of crazy
> patches including those to support proprietary modules and then
> attacking people criticizing those patches, so I can only suggest to
> every maintainer to ignore them for their own sanity.

Sorry about that I didn't Cc the proper list at first,
but it could be checked by using lore:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-unionfs/[email protected]/T/#u

This topic is very specific to overlayfs details, I'm
not sure how I could say the background in brief.

But almost every single container user uses overlayfs
now, so in order to be responsible for end users,
container runtimes and applications, I used some
aggressive way this time.

Thanks,
Gao Xiang