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-doc (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• WARM3d [PATCH RFC -next 04/12] fs: pass struct path to POSIX ACL helpers
  2026-09-24 · Cai Xinchen <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH RFC -next 03/12] fs: pass struct path to xattr helpers
  2026-09-24 · Cai Xinchen <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH RFC -next 01/12] fs: pass struct path to notify_change()
  2026-09-24 · Cai Xinchen <hidden>
• STALE80d [PATCH v2] overlayfs.rst: remove mention of workdir needing to be empty
  2026-07-16 · Jesse Van Gavere via B4 Relay <devnull+jesse.vangavere.teledyne.com@kernel.org>
• STALE81d [PATCH] overlayfs.rst: remove mention of workdir needing to be empty
  2026-07-15 · Jesse Van Gavere <hidden>
• STALE256d [PATCH v2 17/31] ovl: add EXPORT_OP_STABLE_HANDLES flag to export operations
  2026-01-19 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE213d [PATCH 17/24] overlayfs: add setlease file operation
  2026-01-08 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] Add initerofs for EROFS-backed early rootfs
  2025-12-31 · Eric Curtin <hidden>
• STALE305d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH RESEND v3] vfs: remove the excl argument from the ->create() inode_operation
  2025-12-01 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v3] vfs: remove the excl argument from the ->create() inode_operation
  2025-11-10 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE329d [PATCH v2] vfs: remove the excl argument from the ->create() inode_operation
  2025-11-07 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE373d [PATCH v3 04/38] vfs: allow mkdir to wait for delegation break on parent
  2025-09-24 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE446d LANDED: 8 (8M) [PATCH] overlayfs.rst: fix typos
  2025-07-10 · Matthias Frank <hidden>
• STALE463d LANDED [PATCH] overlayfs.rst: Fix inode table
  2025-06-28 · Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
• STALE633d LANDED [PATCH] overlayfs.rst: Fix and improve grammar
  2025-01-07 · Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
• STALE660d LANDED [PATCH] Documentation: filesystems: fix two misspells
  2024-12-08 · Bingwu Zhang <hidden>
• STALE760d [PATCH v2] Update metacopy section in overlayfs documentation
  2024-09-04 · Yuriy Belikov <hidden>
• STALE760d [PATCH] Update redirect_dir and metacopy sections in overlayfs documentation
  2024-08-15 · Yuriy Belikov <hidden>
• STALE902d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v2] treewide: Fix common grammar mistake "the the"
  2024-04-11 · Thorsten Blum <hidden>
• STALE902d [PATCH] treewide: Fix common grammar mistake "the the"
  2024-04-11 · Thorsten Blum <hidden>
• STALE942d [PATCH v2 20/25] ovl: add fscaps handlers
  2024-02-21 · "Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean)" <sforshee@kernel.org>
• STALE942d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v2 21/25] ovl: use vfs_{get,set}_fscaps() for copy-up
  2024-02-21 · "Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean)" <sforshee@kernel.org>
• STALE1024d [PATCH v2 2/2] overlayfs.rst: fix ReST formatting
  2023-12-13 · Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
• STALE1024d [PATCH v2 1/2] overlayfs.rst: use consistent feature names
  2023-12-13 · Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
• STALE1026d [PATCH 2/2] overlayfs.rst: fix ReST formatting
  2023-12-12 · Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
• STALE1026d [PATCH 1/2] overlayfs.rst: use consistent terminology
  2023-12-12 · Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
• STALE1468d Re: [PATCH v1 2/3] landlock: Slightly improve documentation and fix spelling
  2022-09-24 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE1563d LANDED [PATCH] media: docs: Modify the section of User xattr
  2022-06-24 · Deming Wang <hidden>
• STALE1574d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH v3] cred: Propagate security_prepare_creds() error code
  2022-06-08 · Frederick Lawler <hidden>
• STALE1591d [PATCH v2] cred: Propagate security_prepare_creds() error code
  2022-05-25 · Frederick Lawler <hidden>