overlay filesystem · Supported

Maintainers

• M Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
• M Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst
• F fs/overlayfs/

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 30 patches in this subsystem on linux-api (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• COLD48d [RFC PATCH] fs: allow opening overlayfs/erofs layers through O_ALT
  2026-07-15 · Miklos Szeredi <hidden>
• STALE68d [PATCH] ovl: add ioctls to retrieve layer file descriptors
  2026-07-08 · Giuseppe Scrivano <hidden>
• STALE308d REVIEWED: 10 (10M) [PATCH v6 12/17] vfs: make vfs_symlink break delegations on parent dir
  2025-11-11 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE308d REVIEWED: 10 (10M) [PATCH v6 11/17] vfs: make vfs_mknod break delegations on parent directory
  2025-11-11 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE308d REVIEWED: 10 (10M) [PATCH v6 10/17] vfs: make vfs_create break delegations on parent directory
  2025-11-11 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE308d REVIEWED: 10 (10M) [PATCH v6 09/17] vfs: clean up argument list for vfs_create()
  2025-11-11 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE308d REVIEWED: 10 (10M) [PATCH v6 07/17] vfs: allow rmdir to wait for delegation break on parent
  2025-11-11 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE308d REVIEWED: 10 (10M) [PATCH v6 06/17] vfs: allow mkdir to wait for delegation break on parent
  2025-11-11 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE341d [PATCH 1/2] Revert "fs: make vfs_fileattr_[get|set] return -EOPNOTSUPP"
  2025-10-08 · Andrey Albershteyn <hidden>
• STALE344d LANDED [PATCH v6 4/6] fs: make vfs_fileattr_[get|set] return -EOPNOSUPP
  2025-06-30 · Andrey Albershteyn <hidden>
• STALE482d [PATCH v5 5/7] fs: make vfs_fileattr_[get|set] return -EOPNOSUPP
  2025-05-13 · Andrey Albershteyn <hidden>
• STALE492d [PATCH v5 5/7] fs: make vfs_fileattr_[get|set] return -EOPNOSUPP
  2025-05-12 · Andrey Albershteyn <hidden>
• STALE2011d LANDED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v6 05/39] namei: make permission helpers idmapped mount aware
  2021-01-21 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2011d LANDED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v6 06/40] inode: make init and permission helpers idmapped mount aware
  2021-01-21 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2011d LANDED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v6 09/40] xattr: handle idmapped mounts
  2021-01-21 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2011d LANDED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v6 07/40] attr: handle idmapped mounts
  2021-01-21 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2011d LANDED: 6 (6M) [PATCH v6 04/40] capability: handle idmapped mounts
  2021-01-21 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2011d LANDED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v6 14/40] namei: prepare for idmapped mounts
  2021-01-21 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2011d LANDED [PATCH v6 28/40] overlayfs: do not mount on top of idmapped mounts
  2021-01-21 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2011d LANDED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v6 24/40] fs: make helpers idmap mount aware
  2021-01-21 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2011d LANDED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v6 13/40] namei: introduce struct renamedata
  2021-01-21 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2011d LANDED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v6 08/40] acl: handle idmapped mounts
  2021-01-21 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2065d [PATCH v5 32/42] fs: make helpers idmap mount aware
  2021-01-12 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2065d [PATCH v5 21/42] namei: prepare for idmapped mounts
  2021-01-12 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2065d [PATCH v5 39/42] overlayfs: do not mount on top of idmapped mounts
  2021-01-12 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2065d [PATCH v5 20/42] namei: introduce struct renamedata
  2021-01-12 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2065d [PATCH v5 13/42] attr: handle idmapped mounts
  2021-01-12 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2065d [PATCH v5 16/42] xattr: handle idmapped mounts
  2021-01-12 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2065d [PATCH v5 14/42] acl: handle idmapped mounts
  2021-01-12 · Christian Brauner <hidden>
• STALE2065d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v5 11/42] namei: make permission helpers idmapped mount aware
  2021-01-12 · Christian Brauner <hidden>