[Virtio-fs] Vivek's Status (Week starting 5th August, 2019)

[Vivek Goyal]

virtio_fs
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- Fixed bunch of issues and rebased virtio_fs patches to 5.3-rc kernel
  and pushed to private branch.

  https://github.com/rhvgoyal/linux/commits/vivek-5.3-aug-07-2019

- Took care of some of the issues Liu Bo pointed in virtio_fs.

  https://github.com/rhvgoyal/linux/commit/0434504ec11dc2b884939b32d6dde6c9c92def94
  https://github.com/rhvgoyal/linux/commit/127e2551f263a0cc7c6a4f18cbbd55693dfee4d9

- Reviwed ftrace event patch for virtio_fs.

  https://www.redhat.com/archives/virtio-fs/2019-August/msg00072.html

- Bunch of other activity on virtio-fs list.

  https://www.redhat.com/archives/virtio-fs/2019-August/msg00103.html
  https://www.redhat.com/archives/virtio-fs/2019-August/msg00080.html
  https://www.redhat.com/archives/virtio-fs/2019-August/msg00074.html
  https://www.redhat.com/archives/virtio-fs/2019-August/msg00054.html
  https://www.redhat.com/archives/virtio-fs/2019-August/msg00044.html

Containers + Overlayfs
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- Spent some time debugging the overlayfs issue Dan Walsh pointed to where
  mounter does not have CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE and then chmod fails.

  https://github.com/containers/libpod/issues/3684#issuecomment-519574675

- Looked into the issue of overlayfs not working on top of virtio-fs.

  https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/issues/1888#issuecomment-518259095