From: Jesse Van Gavere This requirement has not been true since v4.8 when automatic cleanup was added in commit eea2fb4851e9 ("ovl: proper cleanup of workdir") Signed-off-by: Jesse Van Gavere --- Changes in v2: - Handle remark from Amir Goldstein to drop workdir cleanup reference - Link to v1: https://patch.msgid.link/20260715-overlayfs-rst-update-v1-1-70625a67880e@teledyne.com To: Miklos Szeredi To: Amir Goldstein To: Jonathan Corbet To: Shuah Khan Cc: linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst index eb846518e6ac..ba41c0694e62 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst @@ -123,8 +123,7 @@ At mount time, the two directories given as mount options "lowerdir" and mount -t overlay overlay -olowerdir=/lower,upperdir=/upper,\ workdir=/work /merged -The "workdir" needs to be an empty directory on the same filesystem -as upperdir. +The "workdir" needs to be a directory on the same filesystem as upperdir. Then whenever a lookup is requested in such a merged directory, the lookup is performed in each actual directory and the combined result --- base-commit: 58717b2a1365d06c8c64b72aa948541b53fe31eb change-id: 20260715-overlayfs-rst-update-750d58792f79 Best regards, -- Jesse Van Gavere