Volume permissions of empty volumes not persisted #27720
Description
Issue Description
Ownership and permissions changes of empty container volumes are not persisted between container restarts.
They are persisted in docker.
They are persisted for non-empty volumes.
Steps to reproduce the issue
$ podman run --rm -it -v myvol:/vol alpine:latest chown 1000:1000 /vol
$ podman run --rm -it -v myvol:/vol alpine:latest ls -la /vol
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 8 00:00 .
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Dec 8 00:00 ..
$ podman run --rm -it -v myvol:/vol alpine:latest sh -c 'touch /vol/testfile && chown 1000:1000 /vol'
$ podman run --rm -it -v myvol:/vol alpine:latest ls -la /vol
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 1000 1000 4096 Dec 8 00:00 .
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Dec 8 00:00 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 8 00:00 testfile
$ docker run --rm -it -v myvol:/vol alpine:latest chown 1000:1000 /vol
$ docker run --rm -it -v myvol:/vol alpine:latest ls -la /vol
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 1000 1000 4096 Dec 8 00:00 .
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Dec 8 00:00 ..
Describe the results you received
Ownership not persisted
Describe the results you expected
Ownership persisted
podman info output
host:
arch: amd64
buildahVersion: 1.41.4
cgroupControllers:
- cpu
- memory
- pids
cgroupManager: systemd
cgroupVersion: v2
store:
configFile: /home/user/.config/containers/storage.conf
containerStore:
number: 0
paused: 0
running: 0
stopped: 0
graphDriverName: overlay
graphOptions: {}
version:
APIVersion: 5.6.1
Built: 1757054398
BuiltTime: Fri Sep 5 02:39:58 2025
GitCommit: 1e2b2315150b2ffa0971596fb5da8cd83f3ce0e1
GoVersion: go1.24.6
Os: linux
OsArch: linux/amd64
Version: 5.6.1Podman in a container
No
Privileged Or Rootless
Rootless
Upstream Latest Release
No
Additional environment details
No response
Additional information
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