ovl: fix documentation of non-standard behavior
We can now drop description of the ro/rw inconsistency from the documentation. Also clarify, that now fully standard compliant behavior can be enabled with kernel/module/mount options. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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@ -10,10 +10,6 @@ union-filesystems). An overlay-filesystem tries to present a
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filesystem which is the result over overlaying one filesystem on top
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of the other.
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The result will inevitably fail to look exactly like a normal
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filesystem for various technical reasons. The expectation is that
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many use cases will be able to ignore these differences.
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Overlay objects
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@ -306,27 +302,40 @@ the copied layers will fail the verification of the lower root file handle.
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Non-standard behavior
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The copy_up operation essentially creates a new, identical file and
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moves it over to the old name. Any open files referring to this inode
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will access the old data.
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Overlayfs can now act as a POSIX compliant filesystem with the following
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features turned on:
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The new file may be on a different filesystem, so both st_dev and st_ino
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of the real file may change. The values of st_dev and st_ino returned by
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stat(2) on an overlay object are often not the same as the real file
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stat(2) values to prevent the values from changing on copy_up.
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1) "redirect_dir"
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Unless "xino" feature is enabled, when overlay layers are not all on the
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same underlying filesystem, the value of st_dev may be different for two
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non-directory objects in the same overlay filesystem and the value of
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st_ino for directory objects may be non persistent and could change even
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while the overlay filesystem is still mounted.
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Enabled with the mount option or module option: "redirect_dir=on" or with
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the kernel config option CONFIG_OVERLAY_FS_REDIRECT_DIR=y.
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Unless "inode index" feature is enabled, if a file with multiple hard
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links is copied up, then this will "break" the link. Changes will not be
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propagated to other names referring to the same inode.
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If this feature is disabled, then rename(2) on a lower or merged directory
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will fail with EXDEV ("Invalid cross-device link").
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Unless "redirect_dir" feature is enabled, rename(2) on a lower or merged
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directory will fail with EXDEV.
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2) "inode index"
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Enabled with the mount option or module option "index=on" or with the
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kernel config option CONFIG_OVERLAY_FS_INDEX=y.
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If this feature is disabled and a file with multiple hard links is copied
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up, then this will "break" the link. Changes will not be propagated to
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other names referring to the same inode.
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3) "xino"
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Enabled with the mount option "xino=auto" or "xino=on", with the module
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option "xino_auto=on" or with the kernel config option
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CONFIG_OVERLAY_FS_XINO_AUTO=y. Also implicitly enabled by using the same
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underlying filesystem for all layers making up the overlay.
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If this feature is disabled or the underlying filesystem doesn't have
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enough free bits in the inode number, then overlayfs will not be able to
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guarantee that the values of st_ino and st_dev returned by stat(2) and the
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value of d_ino returned by readdir(3) will act like on a normal filesystem.
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E.g. the value of st_dev may be different for two objects in the same
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overlay filesystem and the value of st_ino for directory objects may not be
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persistent and could change even while the overlay filesystem is mounted.
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Changes to underlying filesystems
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