On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:16:32 +0100 Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> > > Document the overlay filesystem. > Damn, I did it again. This is good, thanks. > +Changes to the underlying filesystems while part of a mounted overlay > +filesystem are not allowed. If the underlying filesystem is changed, > +the behavior of the overlay is undefined, though it will not result in > +a crash or deadlock. ah-hah, there it is. I was wondering how this can-o-worms would be handled ;) Is there anything in place to enforce this at runtime? Checks for read-onlyness, code to prevent rw remounts, etc? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html