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gcb

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Registered: 2014-02-12

Posts: 200

[SOLVED] kernel does not support overlay fs: 'overlay' is not supporte

podman is giving me this message.

# podman info 
Error: configure storage: kernel does not support overlay fs: 'overlay' is not supported over extfs at "/var/lib/containers/storage/overlay": backing file system is unsupported for this graph driver
# uname -a
Linux Arch 6.10.2-arch1-2 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sat, 03 Aug 2024 17:56:17 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

manual says it should fallback to several others https://man.archlinux.org/man/container … RAGE_TABLE

> When the system configuration uses an unsupported rootless driver, rootless users default to "overlay" if available, otherwise "vfs".

wiki says it should "just work" https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Podman … s_overlays

That section ends pointing to instructions to change options on a module that doesn't exist https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Docker … iff_engine

I'm very confused.

Last edited by gcb (2024-08-12 04:23:45)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [SOLVED] kernel does not support overlay fs: 'overlay' is not supporte

you gave uname -a, but how about pacman -Q linux? I'm betting they don't match.

gcb

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Registered: 2014-02-12

Posts: 200

Re: [SOLVED] kernel does not support overlay fs: 'overlay' is not supporte

Right you are. I just had to reboot. didn't see there was an update happening and of course it moved the kernel. that's what i get for working late.