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

• COOLING11d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v10 03/22] ovl: use core fsverity ensure info interface
  2026-05-20 · Andrey Albershteyn <aalbersh@kernel.org>
• COOLING11d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v9 03/22] ovl: use core fsverity ensure info interface
  2026-04-28 · Andrey Albershteyn <aalbersh@kernel.org>
• STALE73d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v8 03/22] ovl: use core fsverity ensure info interface
  2026-04-20 · Andrey Albershteyn <aalbersh@kernel.org>
• STALE81d [PATCH v7 03/22] ovl: use core fsverity ensure info interface
  2026-04-09 · Andrey Albershteyn <aalbersh@kernel.org>
• STALE100d Re: [PATCH 16/53] ovl: drop dir lock for lookups in impure readdir
  2026-03-15 · Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
• STALE100d [PATCH 16/53] ovl: drop dir lock for lookups in impure readdir
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE110d [PATCH v3 12/12] treewide: change inode->i_ino from unsigned long to u64
  2026-03-04 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE123d [PATCH v2 094/110] overlayfs: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE123d [PATCH v2 042/110] overlayfs: use PRIino format for i_ino
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE127d [PATCH 44/61] overlayfs: update format strings for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE164d [PATCH v2 17/31] ovl: add EXPORT_OP_STABLE_HANDLES flag to export operations
  2026-01-19 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE164d [PATCH 16/29] ovl: add EXPORT_OP_STABLE_HANDLES flag to export operations
  2026-01-15 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE138d LANDED [PATCH 3/3] ovl: Use real disk UUID for origin file handles
  2026-01-14 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE122d [PATCH 17/24] overlayfs: add setlease file operation
  2026-01-08 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE174d REVIEWED: 13 (13M) [PATCH 08/11] fs: add support for non-blocking timestamp updates
  2026-01-08 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE174d [PATCH 05/11] fs: refactor ->update_time handling
  2026-01-08 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE179d [PATCH 08/11] fs: add support for non-blocking timestamp updates
  2026-01-06 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE179d [PATCH 05/11] fs: refactor ->update_time handling
  2026-01-06 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE174d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 08/11] fs: add support for non-blocking timestamp updates
  2025-12-23 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE194d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 08/10] fs: add support for non-blocking timestamp updates
  2025-12-17 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE214d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH RESEND v3] vfs: remove the excl argument from the ->create() inode_operation
  2025-12-01 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE221d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 14/16] fs: add support for non-blocking timestamp updates
  2025-11-20 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE223d [PATCH 12/14] fs: add support for non-blocking timestamp updates
  2025-11-14 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• STALE174d REVIEWED: 12 (12M) [PATCH v6 15/15] VFS: introduce end_creating_keep()
  2025-11-13 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE174d REVIEWED: 13 (12M) [PATCH v6 14/15] VFS: change vfs_mkdir() to unlock on failure.
  2025-11-13 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE174d REVIEWED: 12 (12M) [PATCH v6 12/15] Add start_renaming_two_dentries()
  2025-11-13 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE174d REVIEWED: 12 (12M) [PATCH v6 11/15] VFS/ovl/smb: introduce start_renaming_dentry()
  2025-11-13 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE174d REVIEWED: 12 (12M) [PATCH v6 10/15] VFS/nfsd/ovl: introduce start_renaming() and end_renaming()
  2025-11-13 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE174d REVIEWED: 12 (12M) [PATCH v6 08/15] VFS: introduce start_removing_dentry()
  2025-11-13 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE174d REVIEWED: 12 (12M) [PATCH v6 05/15] VFS/nfsd/cachefiles/ovl: introduce start_removing() and end_removing()
  2025-11-13 · NeilBrown <hidden>

Needs attention (review trailers in, no pickup)

Patches with review trailers that haven't landed in mainline and haven't been Acked by a maintainer. Oldest first.

• STALE174d REVIEWED: 13 (13M) [PATCH 08/11] fs: add support for non-blocking timestamp updates
  2026-01-08 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 2 Reviewed-by

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.

• STALE122d [PATCH 17/24] overlayfs: add setlease file operation
  2026-01-08 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE127d [PATCH 44/61] overlayfs: update format strings for u64 i_ino
  2026-02-26 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE123d [PATCH v2 042/110] overlayfs: use PRIino format for i_ino
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE123d [PATCH v2 094/110] overlayfs: replace PRIino with %llu/%llx format strings
  2026-03-02 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>