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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt | 8 |
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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: 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 |