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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst index cdefbe73d85c..5b93268e400f 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst @@ -339,6 +339,18 @@ The specified lower directories will be stacked beginning from the rightmost one and going left. In the above example lower1 will be the top, lower2 the middle and lower3 the bottom layer. +Note: directory names containing colons can be provided as lower layer by +escaping the colons with a single backslash. For example: + + mount -t overlay overlay -olowerdir=/a\:lower\:\:dir /merged + +Since kernel version v6.5, directory names containing colons can also +be provided as lower layer using the fsconfig syscall from new mount api: + + fsconfig(fs_fd, FSCONFIG_SET_STRING, "lowerdir", "/a:lower::dir", 0); + +In the latter case, colons in lower layer directory names will be escaped +as an octal characters (\072) when displayed in /proc/self/mountinfo. Metadata only copy up --------------------- |