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A directory index is a directory type entry in index dir with a "trusted.overlay.upper" xattr containing an encoded ovl_fh of the merge directory upper dir inode. On lookup of non-dir files, lower file is followed by origin file handle. On lookup of dir entries, lower dir is found by name and then compared to origin file handle. We only trust dir index if we verified that lower dir matches origin file handle, otherwise index may be inconsistent and we ignore it. If we find an indexed non-upper dir or an indexed merged dir, whose index 'upper' xattr points to a different upper dir, that means that the lower directory may be also referenced by another upper dir via redirect, so we fail the lookup on inconsistency error. To be consistent with directory index entries format, the association of index dir to upper root dir, that was stored by older kernels in "trusted.overlay.origin" xattr is now stored in "trusted.overlay.upper" xattr. This also serves as an indication that overlay was mounted with a kernel that support index directory entries. For backward compatibility, if an 'origin' xattr exists on the index dir we also verify it on mount. Directory index entries are going to be used for NFS export. Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.