From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 10:02:54 +0000 (+0100) Subject: ovl: update doc X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2d8f2908e60be605dac89145c3edb5e42631d061;p=GitHub%2Fmoto-9609%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git 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 --- 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 ---------------------------------