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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt index a27c950ece61..b37092886dcc 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt @@ -159,6 +159,18 @@ 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. + + Non-standard behavior --------------------- |