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 10 patches in this subsystem on linux-trace-kernel, ordered by date desc.

• Re: [PATCH 16/53] ovl: drop dir lock for lookups in impure readdir
  2026-03-15 · Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
• [PATCH 16/53] ovl: drop dir lock for lookups in impure readdir
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• [PATCH v3 12/12] treewide: change inode->i_ino from unsigned long to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• [PATCH v2 094/110] overlayfs: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• [PATCH v2 042/110] overlayfs: use PRIino format for i_ino
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• [PATCH 44/61] overlayfs: update format strings for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• [PATCH v3 04/38] vfs: allow mkdir to wait for delegation break on parent
  2025-09-24 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• [PATCH v2] treewide: Fix common grammar mistake "the the"
  2024-04-11 · Thorsten Blum <hidden>
• [PATCH] treewide: Fix common grammar mistake "the the"
  2024-04-11 · Thorsten Blum <hidden>
• Re: [PATCH v2 00/89] fs: new accessors for inode->i_ctime
  2023-07-07 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>

Quiet for 30+ days

Patches with no review trailers and no replies. Either the author is heads-down elsewhere or these slipped through. Oldest first.

• [PATCH 44/61] overlayfs: update format strings for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• [PATCH v2 042/110] overlayfs: use PRIino format for i_ino
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• [PATCH v2 094/110] overlayfs: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>