From 60b866420ba7ae0b6a8d338f49be21c601d19064 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Amir Goldstein Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 23:15:21 +0200 Subject: ovl: update documentation of inodes index feature Document that inode index feature solves breaking hard links on copy up. Simplify Kconfig backward compatibility disclaimer. Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi --- fs/overlayfs/Kconfig | 9 +++------ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs') diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/Kconfig b/fs/overlayfs/Kconfig index 5ac415466861..9eac01c3e21e 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/Kconfig +++ b/fs/overlayfs/Kconfig @@ -47,9 +47,6 @@ config OVERLAY_FS_INDEX The inodes index feature prevents breaking of lower hardlinks on copy up. - Note, that the inodes index feature is read-only backward compatible. - That is, mounting an overlay which has an index dir on a kernel that - doesn't support this feature read-only, will not have any negative - outcomes. However, mounting the same overlay with an old kernel - read-write and then mounting it again with a new kernel, will have - unexpected results. + Note, that the inodes index feature is not backward compatible. + That is, mounting an overlay which has an inodes index on a kernel + that doesn't support this feature will have unexpected results. -- cgit v1.2.3