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overlayfs can keep index of copied up files and directories and it seems to serve two primary puroposes. For regular files, it avoids breaking lower hardlinks over copy up. For directories it seems to be used for various error checks. During ovl_lookup(), we lookup for index using lower dentry in many a cases. That lower dentry is called "origin" and following is a summary of current logic. If there is no upperdentry, always lookup for index using lower dentry. For regular files it helps avoiding breaking hard links over copyup and for directories it seems to be just error checks. If there is an upperdentry, then there are 3 possible cases. - For directories, lower dentry is found using two ways. One is regular path based lookup in lower layers and second is using ORIGIN xattr on upper dentry. First verify that path based lookup lower dentry matches the one pointed by upper ORIGIN xattr. If yes, use this verified origin for index lookup. - For regular files (non-metacopy), there is no path based lookup in lower layers as lookup stops once we find upper dentry. So there is no origin verification. If there is ORIGIN xattr present on upper, use that to lookup index otherwise don't. - For regular metacopy files, again lower dentry is found using path based lookup as well as ORIGIN xattr on upper. Path based lookup is continued in this case to find lower data dentry for metacopy upper. So like directories we only use verified origin. If ORIGIN xattr is not present (Either because lower did not support file handles or because this is hardlink copied up with index=off), then don't use path lookup based lower dentry as origin. This is same as regular non-metacopy file case. Suggested-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.