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ovl: document lower layer ordering
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Reported-by: Fabian Sturm <fabian.sturm@aduu.de> 
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
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Miklos Szeredi committed Jan 8, 2015
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Expand Up @@ -167,8 +167,12 @@ separator character between the directory names. For example:

mount -t overlay overlay -olowerdir=/lower1:/lower2:/lower3 /merged

As the example shows, "upperdir=" and "workdir=" may be omitted. In that case
the overlay will be read-only.
As the example shows, "upperdir=" and "workdir=" may be omitted. In
that case the overlay will be read-only.

The specified lower directories will be stacked beginning from the
rightmost one and going left. In the above example lower1 will be the
top, lower2 the middle and lower3 the bottom layer.


Non-standard behavior
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