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@karplucas karplucas commented Jan 14, 2026

Overlayfs natively supports whiteouts without requiring conversion. Skip the whiteout conversion when docker::import uses an overlayfs mount.

Link: https://docs.kernel.org/filesystems/overlayfs.html

Overlayfs natively supports whiteouts without requiring conversion. Skip the
whiteout conversion when docker::import uses an overlayfs mount.

Link: https://docs.kernel.org/filesystems/overlayfs.html
Signed-off-by: Lucas Karpinski <lkarpinski@nvidia.com>
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flx42 commented Jan 15, 2026

OCI layers have AUFS whiteouts, not overlayfs whiteouts. So the conversion is still required.

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