From 6d900f5a33393067e370736d39798f814f5e25cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 15:09:15 +0100 Subject: ovl: document lower layer ordering Reported-by: Fabian Sturm Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi --- Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt index 006ea48..6db0e5d 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt @@ -167,8 +167,12 @@ separator character between the directory names. For example: mount -t overlay overlay -olowerdir=/lower1:/lower2:/lower3 /merged -As the example shows, "upperdir=" and "workdir=" may be omitted. In that case -the overlay will be read-only. +As the example shows, "upperdir=" and "workdir=" may be omitted. In +that case the overlay will be read-only. + +The specified lower directories will be stacked beginning from the +rightmost one and going left. In the above example lower1 will be the +top, lower2 the middle and lower3 the bottom layer. Non-standard behavior -- cgit v1.1