Re: user_namespaces(7) should mention overlay as mountable since Linux 5.11

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Hi Michael,

On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 11:04:26PM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Mar 2021 at 16:00, Szunti <szunti@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > user_namespaces lists in Capabilities section the filesystems that can
> > be mount:
> >
> >   Holding  CAP_SYS_ADMIN  within  the  user  namespace that owns a process's
> >   mount namespace allows that process to create bind mounts  and  mount  the
> >   following types of filesystems:
> >
> >       * /proc (since Linux 3.8)
> >       * /sys (since Linux 3.8)
> >       * devpts (since Linux 3.9)
> >       * tmpfs(5) (since Linux 3.9)
> >       * ramfs (since Linux 3.9)
> >       * mqueue (since Linux 3.9)
> >       * bpf (since Linux 4.4)
> >
> > IUUC this list should add
> >       * overlay (since Linux 5.11)

It should rather say overlayfs.

> Could you add some info about how you discovered/verified this please.
> 
> That helps us check the details.

What a coincidence, I just happen to have the relevant Linux kernel
merge commits cached:
92dbc9dedccb9759c7f9f2f0ae6242396376988f aka v5.11-rc1~83
4cb2c00c43b3fe88b32f29df4f76da1b92c33224 aka v5.11-rc7~28


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