- unionmountopts="-o noatime,lowerdir=${unionro},upperdir=${unionrw}"
- mount -t ${UNIONTYPE} ${unionmountopts} ${UNIONTYPE} "${unionmountpoint}"
+ # Multiple lower layers can now be given using the the colon (":") as a
+ # separator character between the directory names.
+ unionro="$(echo ${unionro} | sed -e 's| |:|g')"
+ # overlayfs requires:
+ # + a workdir to become mounted
+ # + workdir and upperdir to reside under the same mount
+ # + workdir and upperdir to be in separate directories
+ mkdir "${unionrw}/rw"
+ mkdir "${unionrw}/work"
+ unionmountopts="-o noatime,lowerdir=${unionro},upperdir=${unionrw}/rw,workdir=${unionrw}/work"