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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst index 2db379b4b31e..4133a336486d 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst @@ -443,6 +443,13 @@ Only the data of the files in the "data-only" lower layers may be visible when a "metacopy" file in one of the lower layers above it, has a "redirect" to the absolute path of the "lower data" file in the "data-only" lower layer. +Instead of explicitly enabling "metacopy=on" it is sufficient to specify at +least one data-only layer to enable redirection of data to a data-only layer. +In this case other forms of metacopy are rejected. Note: this way data-only +layers may be used toghether with "userxattr", in which case careful attention +must be given to privileges needed to change the "user.overlay.redirect" xattr +to prevent misuse. + Since kernel version v6.8, "data-only" lower layers can also be added using the "datadir+" mount options and the fsconfig syscall from new mount api. For example:: |