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| author | Erik Sjölund <erik.sjolund@gmail.com> | 2022-01-15 12:59:32 +0100 |
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| committer | Erik Sjölund <erik.sjolund@gmail.com> | 2022-01-15 12:59:32 +0100 |
| commit | bb3097cd0a0c9df9818a3eb48eee92eed6107061 (patch) | |
| tree | 5d18d981d7f278d36a1deeaf031f2c9938afa2c9 | |
| parent | ecf818a1cddd5e3e62b4a2a761d44b2be336317e (diff) | |
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[CI:DOCS] Unprivileged native overlayfs is now supported
Signed-off-by: Erik Sjölund <erik.sjolund@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/rootless.md b/rootless.md index bee5d337b..d95e77b94 100644 --- a/rootless.md +++ b/rootless.md @@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ can easily fail * When a container root process like YUM attempts to create a file owned by a different UID, NFS Server/GPFS denies the creation. * Does not work with homedirs mounted with noexec/nodev * User can setup storage to point to other directories they can write to that are not mounted noexec/nodev -* Can not use overlayfs driver, but does support fuse-overlayfs - * Ubuntu supports non root overlay, but no other Linux distros do. +* Support for using native overlayfs as an unprivileged user is only available for Podman version >= 3.1 on a Linux kernel version >= 5.12, otherwise the slower _fuse-overlayfs_ may be used. + * A few Linux distributions (e.g. Ubuntu) have supported even older Podman and Linux kernel versions by modifying the normal Linux kernel behaviour. * Only other supported driver is VFS. * Cannot use ping out of the box. * [(Can be fixed by setting sysctl on host)](https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/master/troubleshooting.md#5-rootless-containers-cannot-ping-hosts) |