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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:
Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
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