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1config OVERLAY_FS
2	tristate "Overlay filesystem support"
3	select EXPORTFS
4	help
5	  An overlay filesystem combines two filesystems - an 'upper' filesystem
6	  and a 'lower' filesystem.  When a name exists in both filesystems, the
7	  object in the 'upper' filesystem is visible while the object in the
8	  'lower' filesystem is either hidden or, in the case of directories,
9	  merged with the 'upper' object.
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11	  For more information see Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt
12
13config OVERLAY_FS_REDIRECT_DIR
14	bool "Overlayfs: turn on redirect dir feature by default"
15	depends on OVERLAY_FS
16	help
17	  If this config option is enabled then overlay filesystems will use
18	  redirects when renaming directories by default.  In this case it is
19	  still possible to turn off redirects globally with the
20	  "redirect_dir=off" module option or on a filesystem instance basis
21	  with the "redirect_dir=off" mount option.
22
23	  Note, that redirects are not backward compatible.  That is, mounting
24	  an overlay which has redirects on a kernel that doesn't support this
25	  feature will have unexpected results.
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