Debian Bug report logs - #836211
dpkg: Cannot upgrade some packages on overlayfs: Invalid cross-device link

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Package: linux; Maintainer for linux is Debian Kernel Team <[email protected]>;

Affects: dpkg

Reported by: Felipe Sateler <[email protected]>

Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 15:18:06 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: upstream

Found in versions 4.12.6-1, 4.6.4-1

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From: Raphael Hertzog <[email protected]>
To: Guillem Jover <[email protected]>
Cc: Felipe Sateler <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: Re: Bug#836211: dpkg: Cannot upgrade some packages on overlayfs:
 Invalid cross-device link
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Control: notfixed -1 4.10.0-1~exp1
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On Fri, 25 Aug 2017, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> I verified today that the issue is gone with Linux 4.12 and apparently
> the appropriate patches have been merged for Linux 4.10 already (merged by
> linus in commit ff0f962ca3c38239b299a70e7eea27abfbb979c3).

I don't know how I did my check last time, but I was wrong. The changes
merged above fixed issues about tools being confused with the unexpected
st_dev values on files but they did not fix the fact that overlayfs
might return EXDEV when renaming a directory that is part of the lower
layer.

So I'm opening the bug again.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer

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