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    ovl: default permissions · 8d3095f4
    Miklos Szeredi authored
    
    
    Add mount option "default_permissions" to alter the way permissions are
    calculated.
    
    Without this option and prior to this patch permissions were calculated by
    underlying lower or upper filesystem.
    
    With this option the permissions are calculated by overlayfs based on the
    file owner, group and mode bits.
    
    This has significance for example when a read-only exported NFS filesystem
    is used as a lower layer.  In this case the underlying NFS filesystem will
    reply with EROFS, in which case all we know is that the filesystem is
    read-only.  But that's not what we are interested in, we are interested in
    whether the access would be allowed if the filesystem wasn't read-only; the
    server doesn't tell us that, and would need updating at various levels,
    which doesn't seem practicable.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMiklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
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