ovl: relax requirement for uuid=off,index=on
authorAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:58:31 +0000 (15:58 +0100)
committerAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Fri, 6 Feb 2026 12:48:23 +0000 (13:48 +0100)
commit869056dbbd636f8f256b695f39c102eb3ce2edd0
tree55cc6687fe5806b44f21bac26caa10e3130bc524
parentfcb70a56f4d81450114034b2c61f48ce7444a0e2
ovl: relax requirement for uuid=off,index=on

uuid=off,index=on required that all upper/lower directories are on the
same filesystem.

Relax the requirement so that only all the lower directories need to be
on the same filesystem.

Reported-by: André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260114-tonyk-get_disk_uuid-v1-3-e6a319e25d57@igalia.com/
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst
fs/overlayfs/namei.c
fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
fs/overlayfs/super.c