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authorAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>2019-11-25 12:51:25 +0300
committerMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>2019-12-10 18:00:55 +0300
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docs: filesystems: overlayfs: Fix restview warnings
Fix only the obvious problems [SzM: add SPDX license line] Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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index 845d689e0fd7..e443be7928db 100644
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@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
Written by: Neil Brown
Please see MAINTAINERS file for where to send questions.
@@ -181,7 +183,7 @@ Kernel config options:
worried about backward compatibility with kernels that have the redirect_dir
feature and follow redirects even if turned off.
-Module options (can also be changed through /sys/module/overlay/parameters/*):
+Module options (can also be changed through /sys/module/overlay/parameters/):
- "redirect_dir=BOOL":
See OVERLAY_FS_REDIRECT_DIR kernel config option above.
@@ -263,7 +265,7 @@ top, lower2 the middle and lower3 the bottom layer.
Metadata only copy up
---------------------
+---------------------
When metadata only copy up feature is enabled, overlayfs will only copy
up metadata (as opposed to whole file), when a metadata specific operation
@@ -286,10 +288,10 @@ pointed by REDIRECT. This should not be possible on local system as setting
"trusted." xattrs will require CAP_SYS_ADMIN. But it should be possible
for untrusted layers like from a pen drive.
-Note: redirect_dir={off|nofollow|follow(*)} conflicts with metacopy=on, and
+Note: redirect_dir={off|nofollow|follow[*]} conflicts with metacopy=on, and
results in an error.
-(*) redirect_dir=follow only conflicts with metacopy=on if upperdir=... is
+[*] redirect_dir=follow only conflicts with metacopy=on if upperdir=... is
given.
Sharing and copying layers