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| author |   Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> | 2020-04-27 23:17:00 +0200 |
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| committer |   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2020-05-05 09:22:21 -0600 |
| commit | 41defb4d0d587ef3fb9b90f3c320b6c41ef68f16 (patch) | |
| tree | 5cb61745dc199b4d2e00e6fa2b267f1c70b44b52 | |
| parent | docs: filesystems: convert cifs/cifsroot.txt to ReST (diff) | |
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docs: filesystems: convert automount-support.txt to ReST
- Add a SPDX header;
- Add a document title;
- Adjust section titles;
- Mark literal blocks as such;
- Add it to filesystems/index.rst.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ba7e2f2bf9aa2c7096772f5e7e8e609cb5fce07c.1588021877.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/automount-support.rst (renamed from Documentation/filesystems/automount-support.txt) | 23 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/index.rst | 2 |
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/automount-support.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/automount-support.rst index 7d9f82607562..430f0b40796b 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/automount-support.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/automount-support.rst @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +================= +Automount Support +================= + + Support is available for filesystems that wish to do automounting support (such as kAFS which can be found in fs/afs/ and NFS in fs/nfs/). This facility includes allowing in-kernel mounts to be @@ -5,13 +12,12 @@ performed and mountpoint degradation to be requested. The latter can also be requested by userspace. -====================== -IN-KERNEL AUTOMOUNTING +In-Kernel Automounting ====================== See section "Mount Traps" of Documentation/filesystems/autofs.rst -Then from userspace, you can just do something like: +Then from userspace, you can just do something like:: [root@andromeda root]# mount -t afs \#root.afs. /afs [root@andromeda root]# ls /afs @@ -21,7 +27,7 @@ Then from userspace, you can just do something like: [root@andromeda root]# ls /afs/cambridge/afsdoc/ ChangeLog html LICENSE pdf RELNOTES-1.2.2 -And then if you look in the mountpoint catalogue, you'll see something like: +And then if you look in the mountpoint catalogue, you'll see something like:: [root@andromeda root]# cat /proc/mounts ... @@ -30,8 +36,7 @@ And then if you look in the mountpoint catalogue, you'll see something like: #afsdoc. /afs/cambridge.redhat.com/afsdoc afs rw 0 0 -=========================== -AUTOMATIC MOUNTPOINT EXPIRY +Automatic Mountpoint Expiry =========================== Automatic expiration of mountpoints is easy, provided you've mounted the @@ -43,7 +48,8 @@ To do expiration, you need to follow these steps: hung. (2) When a new mountpoint is created in the ->d_automount method, add - the mnt to the list using mnt_set_expiry() + the mnt to the list using mnt_set_expiry():: + mnt_set_expiry(newmnt, &afs_vfsmounts); (3) When you want mountpoints to be expired, call mark_mounts_for_expiry() @@ -70,8 +76,7 @@ and the copies of those that are on an expiration list will be added to the same expiration list. -======================= -USERSPACE DRIVEN EXPIRY +Userspace Driven Expiry ======================= As an alternative, it is possible for userspace to request expiry of any diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst index d993b33a48c4..373d695bac65 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst @@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ algorithms work. locking directory-locking + automount-support + caching/index porting |