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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-02-23 04:42:14 +0300 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-02-23 04:42:14 +0300 |
commit | be5e6616dd74e17fdd8e16ca015cfef94d49b467 (patch) | |
tree | a18826e557f0d6636f1e05a4ec30d584ed981a2b /Documentation | |
parent | 90c453ca2214394eec602d98e6cb92d151908493 (diff) | |
parent | 0a280962dc6e117e0e4baa668453f753579265d9 (diff) | |
download | linux-be5e6616dd74e17fdd8e16ca015cfef94d49b467.tar.xz |
Merge branch 'for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro:
"Assorted stuff from this cycle. The big ones here are multilayer
overlayfs from Miklos and beginning of sorting ->d_inode accesses out
from David"
* 'for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (51 commits)
autofs4 copy_dev_ioctl(): keep the value of ->size we'd used for allocation
procfs: fix race between symlink removals and traversals
debugfs: leave freeing a symlink body until inode eviction
Documentation/filesystems/Locking: ->get_sb() is long gone
trylock_super(): replacement for grab_super_passive()
fanotify: Fix up scripted S_ISDIR/S_ISREG/S_ISLNK conversions
Cachefiles: Fix up scripted S_ISDIR/S_ISREG/S_ISLNK conversions
VFS: (Scripted) Convert S_ISLNK/DIR/REG(dentry->d_inode) to d_is_*(dentry)
SELinux: Use d_is_positive() rather than testing dentry->d_inode
Smack: Use d_is_positive() rather than testing dentry->d_inode
TOMOYO: Use d_is_dir() rather than d_inode and S_ISDIR()
Apparmor: Use d_is_positive/negative() rather than testing dentry->d_inode
Apparmor: mediated_filesystem() should use dentry->d_sb not inode->i_sb
VFS: Split DCACHE_FILE_TYPE into regular and special types
VFS: Add a fallthrough flag for marking virtual dentries
VFS: Add a whiteout dentry type
VFS: Introduce inode-getting helpers for layered/unioned fs environments
Infiniband: Fix potential NULL d_inode dereference
posix_acl: fix reference leaks in posix_acl_create
autofs4: Wrong format for printing dentry
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt | 28 |
2 files changed, 28 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index 2ca3d17eee56..f91926f2f482 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -164,8 +164,6 @@ the block device inode. See there for more details. --------------------------- file_system_type --------------------------- prototypes: - int (*get_sb) (struct file_system_type *, int, - const char *, void *, struct vfsmount *); struct dentry *(*mount) (struct file_system_type *, int, const char *, void *); void (*kill_sb) (struct super_block *); diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt index a27c950ece61..6db0e5d1da07 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt @@ -159,6 +159,22 @@ overlay filesystem (though an operation on the name of the file such as rename or unlink will of course be noticed and handled). +Multiple lower layers +--------------------- + +Multiple lower layers can now be given using the the colon (":") as a +separator character between the directory names. For example: + + mount -t overlay overlay -olowerdir=/lower1:/lower2:/lower3 /merged + +As the example shows, "upperdir=" and "workdir=" may be omitted. In +that case the overlay will be read-only. + +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. + + Non-standard behavior --------------------- @@ -196,3 +212,15 @@ Changes to the underlying filesystems while part of a mounted overlay filesystem are not allowed. If the underlying filesystem is changed, the behavior of the overlay is undefined, though it will not result in a crash or deadlock. + +Testsuite +--------- + +There's testsuite developed by David Howells at: + + git://git.infradead.org/users/dhowells/unionmount-testsuite.git + +Run as root: + + # cd unionmount-testsuite + # ./run --ov |