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ovl: allow remote upper
authorMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Tue, 17 Mar 2020 14:04:22 +0000 (15:04 +0100)
committerMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Tue, 17 Mar 2020 14:04:22 +0000 (15:04 +0100)
commitbccece1ead368149f90e05ad104dfbfda4422f5d
treed0d4524ba18318785ff354864f5a6aff753d59ddtree
parentf428884456192230ba1573e4028fb9282ffa2bb7commit | diff
ovl: allow remote upper

No reason to prevent upper layer being a remote filesystem.  Do the
revalidation in that case, just as we already do for lower layers.

This lets virtiofs be used as upper layer, which appears to be a real use
case.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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Linux 6.x block layer and io_uring tree(s)