Re: [PATCH 07/13] overlay: overlay filesystem documentation

J. Bruce Fields
2012-08-15T19:53:18Z

Sorry, just trivial typos:

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 05:48:14PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> +Directories
> +-----------
> +
> +Overlaying mainly involved directories. If a given name appears in both

s/involved/involves/.

> +Non-standard behavior
> +---------------------
> +
> +The copy_up operation essentially creates a new, identical file and
> +moves it over to the old name. The new file may be on a different
> +filesystem, so both st_dev and st_ino of the file may change.
> +
> +Any open files referring to this inode will access the old data and
> +metadata. Similarly any file locks obtained before copy_up will not
> +apply to the copied up file.
> +
> +On a file is opened with O_RDONLY fchmod(2), fchown(2), futimesat(2)

s/is //

> +and fsetxattr(2) will fail with EROFS.
> +
> +If a file with multiple hard links is copied up, then this will
> +"break" the link. Changes will not be propagated to other names
> +referring to the same inode.
> +
> +Symlinks in /proc/PID/ and /proc/PID/fd which point to a non-directory
> +object in overlayfs will not contain vaid absolute paths, only

s/vaid/valid/

--b.