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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2016-09-15 08:24:53 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2016-09-15 08:24:53 +0200 |
| commit | d4b80afbba49e968623330f1336da8c724da8aad (patch) | |
| tree | a9478bd77d8b001a6a7119328d34e9666d7bfe93 /Documentation/filesystems | |
| parent | fcd709ef20a9d83bdb7524d27cd6719dac8690a0 (diff) | |
| parent | 4cea8776571b18db7485930cb422faa739580c8c (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'linus' into x86/asm, to pick up recent fixes
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -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 d6259c786316..bcbf9710e4af 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 |
