From: Kai Lueke Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2022 13:03:12 +0000 (+0200) Subject: man: Do not recommend to overlay files with sysext even if possible X-Git-Tag: v252-rc1~601^2~1 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=566e4b3a19e8cba2fee588b101560269b8dae033;p=thirdparty%2Fsystemd.git man: Do not recommend to overlay files with sysext even if possible While overlaying files with a sysext can be useful, it may lead to unexpected problems depending on when a process got started and which version of the file it gets. Call out that overlaying files is possible but don't recommend to make use of it. --- diff --git a/man/systemd-sysext.xml b/man/systemd-sysext.xml index 60ae4aa8bf0..d7f5d2f37f8 100644 --- a/man/systemd-sysext.xml +++ b/man/systemd-sysext.xml @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ System extensions are supposed to be purely additive, i.e. they are supposed to include only files that do not exist in the underlying basic OS image. However, the underlying mechanism (overlayfs) also - allows removing files, but it is recommended not to make use of this. + allows overlaying or removing files, but it is recommended not to make use of this. System extension images may be provided in the following formats: