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Unprivileged overlay (kernel supported)

Open dtrudg opened this issue 3 years ago • 1 comments

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Cannot use overlays when running SingularityCE unprivileged. However, newer kernels, including some backports to older distros, support this flow.

Describe the solution you'd like

Allow SingularityCE to use kernel support for unprivileged overlays.

dtrudg avatar May 18 '22 21:05 dtrudg

This is usable from kernel 5.13 - ref -https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/podman-rootless-overlay

We should implement this ASAP as it's basically just relaxing some checks and ensuring the flow is correct through the overlay attempts.

dtrudg avatar Jun 15 '22 14:06 dtrudg