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| author | Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> | 2025-01-07 09:44:28 +0100 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2025-01-09 11:51:44 -0700 |
| commit | a883764111c07a3653973215f48651b9104fa162 (patch) | |
| tree | d732858eccb865bbcc3c9f7bc71f737c938dedcb | |
| parent | 908c1257e5dfb4280bb41f290e15205c3baddaf7 (diff) | |
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overlayfs.rst: Fix and improve grammar
- Correct "in a way the" to "in a way that",
- Add a comma to improve readability.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Acked-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/cf07f705d63f04ebf7ba4ecafdc9ab6f63960e3d.1736239148.git.geert+renesas@glider.be
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst index d2a277e3976e..6245b67ae9e0 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst @@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ Non-directories Objects that are not directories (files, symlinks, device-special files etc.) are presented either from the upper or lower filesystem as appropriate. When a file in the lower filesystem is accessed in a way -the requires write-access, such as opening for write access, changing +that requires write-access, such as opening for write access, changing some metadata etc., the file is first copied from the lower filesystem to the upper filesystem (copy_up). Note that creating a hard-link also requires copy_up, though of course creation of a symlink does @@ -549,8 +549,8 @@ Nesting overlayfs mounts It is possible to use a lower directory that is stored on an overlayfs mount. For regular files this does not need any special care. However, files -that have overlayfs attributes, such as whiteouts or "overlay.*" xattrs will be -interpreted by the underlying overlayfs mount and stripped out. In order to +that have overlayfs attributes, such as whiteouts or "overlay.*" xattrs, will +be interpreted by the underlying overlayfs mount and stripped out. In order to allow the second overlayfs mount to see the attributes they must be escaped. Overlayfs specific xattrs are escaped by using a special prefix of |