From a78d9f0d5d5ca9054703376c7c23c901807ddd87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 00:59:52 +0100 Subject: ovl: support multiple lower layers Allow "lowerdir=" option to contain multiple lower directories separated by a colon (e.g. "lowerdir=/bin:/usr/bin"). Colon characters in filenames can be escaped with a backslash. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi --- Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') 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 --------------------- -- cgit v1.2.3