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| author | Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> | 2015-01-08 09:09:15 -0500 |
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| committer | Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> | 2015-01-08 09:09:15 -0500 |
| commit | 6d900f5a33393067e370736d39798f814f5e25cc (patch) | |
| tree | 1cf78589fb809bbb2e5c3f62ffab4a7bea3b1c50 /Documentation/filesystems | |
| parent | 3cdf6fe91041b3afd6761f76254f7b6cbe8020fc (diff) | |
ovl: document lower layer ordering
Reported-by: Fabian Sturm <fabian.sturm@aduu.de>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt index 006ea480506d..6db0e5d1da07 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt | |||
| @@ -167,8 +167,12 @@ separator character between the directory names. For example: | |||
| 167 | 167 | ||
| 168 | mount -t overlay overlay -olowerdir=/lower1:/lower2:/lower3 /merged | 168 | mount -t overlay overlay -olowerdir=/lower1:/lower2:/lower3 /merged |
| 169 | 169 | ||
| 170 | As the example shows, "upperdir=" and "workdir=" may be omitted. In that case | 170 | As the example shows, "upperdir=" and "workdir=" may be omitted. In |
| 171 | the overlay will be read-only. | 171 | that case the overlay will be read-only. |
| 172 | |||
| 173 | The specified lower directories will be stacked beginning from the | ||
| 174 | rightmost one and going left. In the above example lower1 will be the | ||
| 175 | top, lower2 the middle and lower3 the bottom layer. | ||
| 172 | 176 | ||
| 173 | 177 | ||
| 174 | Non-standard behavior | 178 | Non-standard behavior |