Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Feb 2015 10:30:39 +0100 | From | Miklos Szeredi <> | Subject | [GIT PULL] multi-layer support for overlay filesystem |
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Al,
Please pull from
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs.git overlayfs-next
This adds support for multiple read-only layers to overlayfs. It also makes the writable upper layer optional.
This is a highly requested feature and has been in -next for the last cycle.
Thanks, Miklos
--- Miklos Szeredi (16): ovl: check whiteout while reading directory ovl: make path-type a bitmap ovl: dont replace opaque dir ovl: add mutli-layer infrastructure ovl: helper to iterate layers ovl: multi-layer readdir ovl: multi-layer lookup ovl: check whiteout on lowest layer as well ovl: lookup ENAMETOOLONG on lower means ENOENT ovl: allow statfs if no upper layer ovl: mount: change order of initialization ovl: improve mount helpers ovl: make upperdir optional ovl: support multiple lower layers ovl: add testsuite to docs ovl: document lower layer ordering
Seunghun Lee (1): ovl: Prevent rw remount when it should be ro mount
hujianyang (5): ovl: Cleanup redundant blank lines ovl: Use macros to present ovl_xattr ovl: Fix kernel panic while mounting overlayfs ovl: Fix opaque regression in ovl_lookup ovl: discard independent cursor in readdir()
--- Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt | 28 ++ fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c | 5 +- fs/overlayfs/dir.c | 28 +- fs/overlayfs/inode.c | 12 +- fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h | 18 +- fs/overlayfs/readdir.c | 181 +++++----- fs/overlayfs/super.c | 564 +++++++++++++++++++++----------- 7 files changed, 517 insertions(+), 319 deletions(-)
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