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authorMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>2015-01-08 15:09:15 +0100
committerMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>2015-01-08 15:09:15 +0100
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parentovl: Prevent rw remount when it should be ro mount (diff)
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ovl: document lower layer ordering
Reported-by: Fabian Sturm <fabian.sturm@aduu.de> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt
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@@ -167,8 +167,12 @@ 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.
+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