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| author | Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> | 2015-01-08 15:09:15 +0100 |
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| committer | Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org> | 2015-04-17 15:51:15 +0800 |
| commit | 6fb17a412207343151aac1fde91935a542339deb (patch) | |
| tree | 661a2578571b9bbeb4aa4c09e15351024a611fb2 /Documentation | |
| parent | 59b077027a431f849a07bd330f0de14c31376743 (diff) | |
ovl: document lower layer ordering
Reported-by: Fabian Sturm <fabian.sturm@aduu.de>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
(cherry picked from commit 6d900f5a33393067e370736d39798f814f5e25cc)
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
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 |