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linux-lts-utopic package

  1. Bug #1523000
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 1523000

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Cam Cope (ccope) wrote :

Test procedure:

In 3.16.0-57-generic:
$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/lower/f1 bs=4096 count=550000
550000+0 records in
550000+0 records out
2252800000 bytes (2.3 GB) copied, 4.00938 s, 562 MB/s
$ sudo mount -t overlayfs overlayfs -olowerdir=/lower,upperdir=/upper /mnt/overlayfs
$ sudo chmod 666 /mnt/overlayfs/f1
chmod: changing permissions of ‘f1’: Value too large for defined data type

Rebooted into 3.16.0-58-generic:
$ sudo mount -t overlayfs overlayfs -olowerdir=/lower,upperdir=/upper /mnt/overlayfs
$ sudo chmod 666 /mnt/overlayfs/f1
$ echo $?
0