Commit 5d3211b6 authored by Miklos Szeredi's avatar Miklos Szeredi

ovl: doc: add non-standard corner cases

While most corner cases have already been dealt with, some remain and
should be documented.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
parent 146d62e5
......@@ -336,8 +336,20 @@ the copied layers will fail the verification of the lower root file handle.
Non-standard behavior
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Overlayfs can now act as a POSIX compliant filesystem with the following
features turned on:
Current version of overlayfs can act as a mostly POSIX compliant
filesystem.
This is the list of cases that overlayfs doesn't currently handle:
a) POSIX mandates updating st_atime for reads. This is currently not
done in the case when the file resides on a lower layer.
b) If a file residing on a lower layer is opened for read-only and then
memory mapped with MAP_SHARED, then subsequent changes to the file are not
reflected in the memory mapping.
The following options allow overlayfs to act more like a standards
compliant filesystem:
1) "redirect_dir"
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