ovl: doc: add non-standard corner cases

[sfrench/cifs-2.6.git] / Documentation / filesystems / overlayfs.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt
index eef7d9d259e8570d102be8c7f1641158950262c2..1da2f1668f0891a9151cd27218f4e1f6ca5c3732 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt
@@ -336,8 +336,20 @@ the copied layers will fail the verification of the lower root file handle.
 Non-standard behavior
 ---------------------
 
-Overlayfs can now act as a POSIX compliant filesystem with the following
-features turned on:
+Current version of overlayfs can act as a mostly POSIX compliant
+filesystem.
+
+This is the list of cases that overlayfs doesn't currently handle:
+
+a) POSIX mandates updating st_atime for reads.  This is currently not
+done in the case when the file resides on a lower layer.
+
+b) If a file residing on a lower layer is opened for read-only and then
+memory mapped with MAP_SHARED, then subsequent changes to the file are not
+reflected in the memory mapping.
+
+The following options allow overlayfs to act more like a standards
+compliant filesystem:
 
 1) "redirect_dir"