experiments with restoring dead dir

[xiangbin-hu]

for #11425

getting errors like:

restoring container "container_name": failed to load kernel: vfs.CompleteRestore() failed: failed to complete restore for filesystem type "9p": failed to re-create deleted directory "var/lib/docker/check-overlayfs-support681873684/upper": no such file or directory

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