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| author | Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> | 2017-11-15 16:56:11 -0800 |
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| committer | Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> | 2017-11-15 16:56:11 -0800 |
| commit | 4247f24c23589bcc3bc3490515ef8c9497e9ae55 (patch) | |
| tree | 89726a0e171c443a3e8def2992b56dbd8a21df21 /Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt | |
| parent | 79ab67ede21f536851a99ea68ee6fc1f5435e055 (diff) | |
| parent | 9f586fff6574f6ecbf323f92d44ffaf0d96225fe (diff) | |
Merge branch 'for-4.15/dax' into libnvdimm-for-next
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
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 |