linux/Documentation/filesystems
Amir Goldstein 37ebf056d6 ovl: introduce data-only lower layers
Introduce the format lowerdir=lower1:lower2::lowerdata1::lowerdata2
where the lower layers on the right of the :: separators are not merged
into the overlayfs merge dirs.

Data-only lower layers are only allowed at the bottom of the stack.

The files in those layers are only meant to be accessible via absolute
redirect from metacopy files in lower layers.  Following changes will
implement lookup in the data layers.

This feature was requested for composefs ostree use case, where the
lower data layer should only be accessiable via absolute redirects
from metacopy inodes.

The lower data layers are not required to a have a unique uuid or any
uuid at all, because they are never used to compose the overlayfs inode
st_ino/st_dev.

Reviewed-by: Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
2023-06-19 14:01:13 +03:00
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caching Remove duplicate words inside documentation 2022-09-27 13:21:43 -06:00
ext4 docs: ext4: modify the group desc size to 64 2023-03-07 20:24:05 -05:00
nfs Documentation: Fix sysfs path for the NFSv4 client identifier 2023-02-15 11:01:03 -05:00
smb smb3: move Documentation/filesystems/cifs to Documentation/filesystems/smb 2023-05-24 16:29:21 -05:00
spufs Documentation: spufs: correct a duplicate word typo 2022-09-27 13:21:44 -06:00
9p.rst fs/9p: Rework cache modes and add new options to Documentation 2023-04-09 21:41:21 +00:00
adfs.rst
affs.rst
afs.rst
api-summary.rst block: move fs/block_dev.c to block/bdev.c 2021-09-07 08:39:40 -06:00
autofs-mount-control.rst
autofs.rst docs: filesystems: Fix grammatical error "with" to "which" 2021-11-15 02:54:37 -07:00
automount-support.rst
befs.rst
bfs.rst
btrfs.rst Documentation: update btrfs list of features and link to readthedocs.io 2022-06-21 14:47:19 +02:00
ceph.rst ceph: remove Sage's git tree from documentation 2022-10-04 19:18:08 +02:00
coda.rst
configfs.rst configfs: remove mentions of committable items 2022-12-02 11:11:27 +01:00
cramfs.rst
dax.rst Documentation/filesystem/dax: update DAX description on erofs 2022-03-16 09:38:38 +08:00
debugfs.rst debugfs: small Documentation cleaning 2022-11-09 13:58:55 -07:00
devpts.rst
directory-locking.rst
dlmfs.rst
dnotify.rst
ecryptfs.rst
efivarfs.rst
erofs.rst erofs: set block size to the on-disk block size 2023-04-17 01:15:45 +08:00
ext2.rst ext2: remove nobh support 2022-08-02 12:34:04 -04:00
ext3.rst
f2fs.rst docs: f2fs: Correct instruction to disable checkpoint 2023-04-12 20:00:36 -07:00
fiemap.rst
files.rst
fscrypt.rst fscrypt: support decrypting data from large folios 2023-01-28 15:10:12 -08:00
fsverity.rst fsverity: support verifying data from large folios 2023-01-27 14:46:31 -08:00
fuse-io.rst
fuse.rst fuse: Add module param for CAP_SYS_ADMIN access bypassing allow_other 2022-07-21 16:06:19 +02:00
gfs2-glocks.rst
gfs2-uevents.rst
gfs2.rst
hfs.rst
hfsplus.rst
hpfs.rst
idmappings.rst Documentation: update idmappings.rst 2023-03-14 14:16:57 +01:00
index.rst smb3: move Documentation/filesystems/cifs to Documentation/filesystems/smb 2023-05-24 16:29:21 -05:00
inotify.rst
isofs.rst
journalling.rst
locking.rst mm: hold the RCU read lock over calls to ->map_pages 2023-04-05 19:43:00 -07:00
locks.rst docs: fs: locks.rst: update comment about mandatory file locking 2021-10-19 06:48:21 -04:00
mount_api.rst fs_context: drop the unused lsm_flags member 2023-03-16 14:38:28 +01:00
netfs_library.rst netfs: do not unlock and put the folio twice 2022-07-14 10:10:12 +02:00
nilfs2.rst
ntfs3.rst fs/ntfs3: Remove noacsrules 2023-03-27 16:59:17 +04:00
ntfs.rst
ocfs2-online-filecheck.rst
ocfs2.rst
omfs.rst
orangefs.rst
overlayfs.rst ovl: introduce data-only lower layers 2023-06-19 14:01:13 +03:00
path-lookup.rst Merge branch 'work.namei' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2021-07-03 11:41:14 -07:00
path-lookup.txt
porting.rst fs: rename current get acl method 2022-10-20 10:13:27 +02:00
proc.rst Mainly singleton patches all over the place. Series of note are: 2023-04-27 19:57:00 -07:00
qnx6.rst Documentation: filesystems: correct possessive "its" 2022-09-27 13:21:44 -06:00
quota.rst
ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.rst Documentation/filesystems: ramfs-rootfs-initramfs: use :Author: 2023-05-16 12:55:35 -06:00
relay.rst
romfs.rst
seq_file.rst seq_file: document how per-entry resources are managed. 2021-02-26 09:41:05 -08:00
sharedsubtree.rst Documentation/filesystems: sharedsubtree: add section headings 2023-05-16 12:50:05 -06:00
splice.rst
squashfs.rst
sysfs.rst driver core: bus: mark the struct bus_type for sysfs callbacks as constant 2023-03-23 13:20:40 +01:00
sysv-fs.rst
tmpfs.rst shmem: add support to ignore swap 2023-03-28 16:20:15 -07:00
ubifs-authentication.rst
ubifs.rst Documentation: ubifs: Fix compression idiom 2022-10-10 13:01:10 -06:00
udf.rst
vfat.rst docs: filesystems: Fix a mundane typo 2021-03-25 11:51:23 -06:00
vfs.rst docs: filesystems: vfs: actualize struct super_operations description 2023-03-14 12:12:12 -06:00
virtiofs.rst
xfs-delayed-logging-design.rst Documentation: filesystems: correct possessive "its" 2022-09-27 13:21:44 -06:00
xfs-online-fsck-design.rst xfs: document future directions of online fsck 2023-04-11 18:59:52 -07:00
xfs-self-describing-metadata.rst xfs: document the filesystem metadata checking strategy 2023-04-11 18:59:47 -07:00
zonefs.rst documentation: zonefs: Document sysfs attributes 2022-04-26 14:53:06 +09:00