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