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From: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,  linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org,
	Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v3 3/5] Documentation,ovl: document new file descriptor based layers
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 11:40:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241014-work-overlayfs-v3-3-32b3fed1286e@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241014-work-overlayfs-v3-0-32b3fed1286e@kernel.org>

Add a minimal example how to specify layers via file descriptors.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
---
 Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst
index 3436447123409726cbd78badea2f8b4f002e0640..4c8387e1c88068fa10c640191fe3bcc20587f6b0 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst
@@ -440,6 +440,23 @@ For example::
   fsconfig(fs_fd, FSCONFIG_SET_STRING, "datadir+", "/do2", 0);
 
 
+Specifying layers via file descriptors
+--------------------------------------
+
+Since kernel v6.13, overlayfs supports specifying layers via file descriptors in
+addition to specifying them as paths. This feature is available for the
+"datadir+", "lowerdir+", "upperdir", and "workdir+" mount options with the
+fsconfig syscall from the new mount api::
+
+  fsconfig(fs_fd, FSCONFIG_SET_FD, "lowerdir+", NULL, fd_lower1);
+  fsconfig(fs_fd, FSCONFIG_SET_FD, "lowerdir+", NULL, fd_lower2);
+  fsconfig(fs_fd, FSCONFIG_SET_FD, "lowerdir+", NULL, fd_lower3);
+  fsconfig(fs_fd, FSCONFIG_SET_FD, "datadir+", NULL, fd_data1);
+  fsconfig(fs_fd, FSCONFIG_SET_FD, "datadir+", NULL, fd_data2);
+  fsconfig(fs_fd, FSCONFIG_SET_FD, "workdir", NULL, fd_work);
+  fsconfig(fs_fd, FSCONFIG_SET_FD, "upperdir", NULL, fd_upper);
+
+
 fs-verity support
 -----------------
 

-- 
2.45.2


  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-10-14  9:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-14  9:40 [PATCH v3 0/5] ovl: file descriptors based layer setup Christian Brauner
2024-10-14  9:40 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] fs: add helper to use mount option as path or fd Christian Brauner
2024-10-14  9:40 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] ovl: specify layers via file descriptors Christian Brauner
2024-10-18  9:42   ` Miklos Szeredi
2024-10-18 10:34     ` Christian Brauner
2024-10-14  9:40 ` Christian Brauner [this message]
2024-10-14  9:40 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] selftests: use shared header Christian Brauner
2024-10-14  9:41 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] selftests: add overlayfs fd mounting selftests Christian Brauner
2024-10-14 14:16 ` [PATCH v3 0/5] ovl: file descriptors based layer setup Amir Goldstein

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