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overlayfs.rst: Fix and improve grammar

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- Correct "in a way the" to "in a way that",
  - Add a comma to improve readability.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Acked-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/cf07f705d63f04ebf7ba4ecafdc9ab6f63960e3d.1736239148.git.geert+renesas@glider.be
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@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ Non-directories
Objects that are not directories (files, symlinks, device-special
files etc.) are presented either from the upper or lower filesystem as
appropriate. When a file in the lower filesystem is accessed in a way
the requires write-access, such as opening for write access, changing
that requires write-access, such as opening for write access, changing
some metadata etc., the file is first copied from the lower filesystem
to the upper filesystem (copy_up). Note that creating a hard-link
also requires copy_up, though of course creation of a symlink does
@ -549,8 +549,8 @@ Nesting overlayfs mounts
It is possible to use a lower directory that is stored on an overlayfs
mount. For regular files this does not need any special care. However, files
that have overlayfs attributes, such as whiteouts or "overlay.*" xattrs will be
interpreted by the underlying overlayfs mount and stripped out. In order to
that have overlayfs attributes, such as whiteouts or "overlay.*" xattrs, will
be interpreted by the underlying overlayfs mount and stripped out. In order to
allow the second overlayfs mount to see the attributes they must be escaped.
Overlayfs specific xattrs are escaped by using a special prefix of