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

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On 3/15/21 12:20 AM, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> 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

Thanks Dmitry nd Szunti. I've added overlayfs.

Cheers,

Michael

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