Commit a8837641 authored by Geert Uytterhoeven's avatar Geert Uytterhoeven Committed by Jonathan Corbet
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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: default avatarGeert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Acked-by: default avatarAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/cf07f705d63f04ebf7ba4ecafdc9ab6f63960e3d.1736239148.git.geert+renesas@glider.be
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Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst

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@@ -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