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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt | 5 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt index 36f528a7fdd6..8caa60734647 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt @@ -210,8 +210,11 @@ path as another overlay mount and it may use a lower layer path that is beneath or above the path of another overlay lower layer path. Using an upper layer path and/or a workdir path that are already used by -another overlay mount is not allowed and will fail with EBUSY. Using +another overlay mount is not allowed and may fail with EBUSY. Using partially overlapping paths is not allowed but will not fail with EBUSY. +If files are accessed from two overlayfs mounts which share or overlap the +upper layer and/or workdir path the behavior of the overlay is undefined, +though it will not result in a crash or deadlock. Mounting an overlay using an upper layer path, where the upper layer path was previously used by another mounted overlay in combination with a |