overlay4u 0.0.2

Warnings!

overlay4u requires root. Be sure you’re aware of that. It’s still very much a work in progress so please use with caution and hopefully on VM that you do not care about.

Caveats

overlay4u is not currently being designed for anything but Ubuntu 12.04. At this time that’s the first priority.

Currently Working

• Mounting works! (Tested and works)

• Creating a table of mounted filesystems

• Unmounting

Possible interface examples

Create an overlay at dest:

import overlay4u

overlay = overlay4u.mount('dest', 'lower', 'upper')

overlay.unmount()

If the destination already has something mounted it won’t mount again:

import overlay4u

overlay1 = overlay4u.mount('dest', 'lower', 'upper')

# This will throw an error.
overlay2 = overlay4u.mount('dest', 'lower', 'upper')

That’s all. It’s a relatively simple tool.