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From: nerdopolis <bluescreen_avenger@verizon.net>
To: linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Incorrect Overlayfs documentation
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 23:08:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1750303.WlVpaa6DS8@nerdopolis> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1750303.WlVpaa6DS8.ref@nerdopolis

Hi

A while back I opened up https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195113 describing a documentation problem in
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt but for whatever reason, it hasn't been seen.


The problem is that it says "The lower filesystem can be any filesystem supported by Linux"
however, this is not the case, as Linux supports vfat, and vfat doesn't work as a lower filesystem

So there's no way to tell what filesystems are applicable for an overlay lowerfs, 
and I don't think any existing userspace utilities can detect it.

Could it be possible for the .txt file to be updated?

Thanks



       reply	other threads:[~2020-07-16  3:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1750303.WlVpaa6DS8.ref@nerdopolis>
2020-07-16  3:08 ` nerdopolis [this message]
2020-07-16 17:03   ` Incorrect Overlayfs documentation Amir Goldstein
2020-07-23  3:50     ` nerdopolis
2020-07-29  5:51       ` Amir Goldstein
     [not found]         ` <CAH2+hP4=9A2fWkJgJhUZps+5gCqZfPSzfNJDXW3FHjDZmk3-vA@mail.gmail.com>
2021-01-04  3:32           ` nerdopolis

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