Re: [PATCH v2] ovl: document lower modification caveats

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On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 4:23 AM Kevin Locke <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Some overlayfs optional features are incompatible with offline changes
> to the lower tree[1][2][3] and may result in -EXDEV[4], -EIO[5], or
> other errors.  Such modification is not supported and the error behavior
> is intentionally not specified.
>
> Update the "Changes to underlying filesystems" section to note this
> restriction.  Move the paragraph describing the offline behavior below
> the online behavior so it is adjacent to the following 3 paragraphs
> describing the NFS export offline modification behavior.
>
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-unionfs/20200708142353.GA103536@xxxxxxxxxx/
> [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-unionfs/CAOQ4uxi23Zsmfb4rCed1n=On0NNA5KZD74jjjeyz+et32sk-gg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> [3]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-unionfs/20200817135651.GA637139@xxxxxxxxxx/
> [4]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-unionfs/20200709153616.GE150543@xxxxxxxxxx/
> [5]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-unionfs/20200812135529.GA122370@kevinolos/
>
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Locke <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, applied.

Miklos



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