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| author | Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> | 2016-12-16 11:02:54 +0100 |
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| committer | Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> | 2016-12-16 11:02:54 +0100 |
| commit | 2d8f2908e60be605dac89145c3edb5e42631d061 (patch) | |
| tree | 4217525843a2b8396583e101e438dabe57ce5093 /Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt | |
| parent | b335e9d9944d9c66cdaadc5e295cc845c31e40a0 (diff) | |
ovl: update doc
The quirk for file locks and leases no longer applies.
Add missing info about renaming directory residing on lower layer.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt index bcbf9710e4af..7aeb8e8d80cf 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt @@ -185,13 +185,13 @@ filesystem, so both st_dev and st_ino of the file may change. Any open files referring to this inode will access the old data. -Any file locks (and leases) obtained before copy_up will not apply -to the copied up file. - If a file with multiple hard links is copied up, then this will "break" the link. Changes will not be propagated to other names referring to the same inode. +Directory trees are not copied up. If rename(2) is performed on a directory +which is on the lower layer or is merged, then -EXDEV will be returned. + Changes to underlying filesystems --------------------------------- |