Comment 2 for bug 1410480

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Ryan Tandy (rtandy) wrote : Re: 3.18 overlayfs doesn't rename existing files/dirs properly

Not true of all directories, actually. /root is special somehow. (detach_mounts is suspicious... probably the initramfs mounted the real root at /root, or something like that?) Renaming /mnt or /opt works properly and no whiteout is left behind.