2015-07-02 12:47:05

by Miklos Szeredi

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Subject: [GIT PULL] overlayfs update for 4.2

Hi Linus,

Please pull from:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs.git overlayfs-next

This relaxes the requirements on the lower layer filesystem: now ones that
implement .d_revalidate, such as NFS, can be used. Upper layer filesystems
still has the "no .d_revalidate" requirement. Also a bad interaction with jffs2
locking has been fixed.

Thanks,
Miklos

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Miklos Szeredi (3):
ovl: don't traverse automount points
ovl: allow distributed fs as lower layer
ovl: lookup whiteouts outside iterate_dir()

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fs/overlayfs/readdir.c | 77 +++++++++++++++++++++------------
fs/overlayfs/super.c | 113 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
2 files changed, 139 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)