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| author | André Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu> | 2016-10-20 00:10:27 -0300 |
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| committer | André Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu> | 2016-10-20 00:10:27 -0300 |
| commit | d0b2f91bede3bd5e3d24dd6803e56eee959c1797 (patch) | |
| tree | 7fee4ab0509879c373c4f2cbd5b8a5be5b4041ee /Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt | |
| parent | e914f8eb445e8f74b00303c19c2ffceaedd16a05 (diff) | |
Linux-libre 4.8.2-gnupck-4.8.2-gnu
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt index d6259c786..bcbf9710e 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt @@ -183,12 +183,10 @@ The copy_up operation essentially creates a new, identical file and moves it over to the old name. The new file may be on a different filesystem, so both st_dev and st_ino of the file may change. -Any open files referring to this inode will access the old data and -metadata. Similarly any file locks obtained before copy_up will not -apply to the copied up file. +Any open files referring to this inode will access the old data. -On a file opened with O_RDONLY fchmod(2), fchown(2), futimesat(2) and -fsetxattr(2) will fail with EROFS. +Any file locks (and leases) obtained before copy_up will not apply +to the copied up file. If a file with multiple hard links is copied up, then this will "break" the link. Changes will not be propagated to other names |