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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
17 files changed, 69 insertions, 35 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX b/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX index f15621ee5599..875d49696b6e 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX @@ -1,7 +1,5 @@ 00-INDEX - this file (info on some of the filesystems supported by linux). -Exporting - - explanation of how to make filesystems exportable. Locking - info on locking rules as they pertain to Linux VFS. 9p.txt @@ -36,6 +34,8 @@ dnotify.txt - info about directory notification in Linux. ecryptfs.txt - docs on eCryptfs: stacked cryptographic filesystem for Linux. +exofs.txt + - info, usage, mount options, design about EXOFS. ext2.txt - info, mount options and specifications for the Ext2 filesystem. ext3.txt @@ -66,12 +66,8 @@ mandatory-locking.txt - info on the Linux implementation of Sys V mandatory file locking. ncpfs.txt - info on Novell Netware(tm) filesystem using NCP protocol. -nfs41-server.txt - - info on the Linux server implementation of NFSv4 minor version 1. -nfs-rdma.txt - - how to install and setup the Linux NFS/RDMA client and server software. -nfsroot.txt - - short guide on setting up a diskless box with NFS root filesystem. +nfs/ + - nfs-related documentation. nilfs2.txt - info and mount options for the NILFS2 filesystem. ntfs.txt @@ -90,8 +86,6 @@ relay.txt - info on relay, for efficient streaming from kernel to user space. romfs.txt - description of the ROMFS filesystem. -rpc-cache.txt - - introduction to the caching mechanisms in the sunrpc layer. seq_file.txt - how to use the seq_file API sharedsubtree.txt diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/exofs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/exofs.txt index 0ced74c2f73c..abd2a9b5b787 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/exofs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/exofs.txt @@ -60,13 +60,13 @@ USAGE mkfs.exofs --pid=65536 --format /dev/osd0 - The --format is optional if not specified no OSD_FORMAT will be - preformed and a clean file system will be created in the specified pid, + The --format is optional. If not specified, no OSD_FORMAT will be + performed and a clean file system will be created in the specified pid, in the available space of the target. (Use --format=size_in_meg to limit the total LUN space available) - If pid already exist it will be deleted and a new one will be created in it's - place. Be careful. + If pid already exists, it will be deleted and a new one will be created in + its place. Be careful. An exofs lives inside a single OSD partition. You can create multiple exofs filesystems on the same device using multiple pids. @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ USAGE 7. For reference (See do-exofs example script): do-exofs start - an example of how to perform the above steps. - do-exofs stop - an example of how to unmount the file system. + do-exofs stop - an example of how to unmount the file system. do-exofs format - an example of how to format and mkfs a new exofs. 8. Extra compilation flags (uncomment in fs/exofs/Kbuild): @@ -104,8 +104,8 @@ Where: exofs specific options: Options are separated by commas (,) pid=<integer> - The partition number to mount/create as container of the filesystem. - This option is mandatory - to=<integer> - Timeout in ticks for a single command + This option is mandatory. + to=<integer> - Timeout in ticks for a single command. default is (60 * HZ) [for debugging only] =============================================================================== @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ DESIGN with a special ID (defined in common.h). Information included in the file system control block is used to fill the in-memory superblock structure at mount time. This object is created before - the file system is used by mkexofs.c It contains information such as: + the file system is used by mkexofs.c. It contains information such as: - The file system's magic number - The next inode number to be allocated @@ -134,8 +134,8 @@ DESIGN attributes. This applies to both regular files and other types (directories, device files, symlinks, etc.). -* Credentials are generated per object (inode and superblock) when they is - created in memory (read off disk or created). The credential works for all +* Credentials are generated per object (inode and superblock) when they are + created in memory (read from disk or created). The credential works for all operations and is used as long as the object remains in memory. * Async OSD operations are used whenever possible, but the target may execute @@ -145,7 +145,8 @@ DESIGN from executing in reverse order: - The following are handled with the OBJ_CREATED and OBJ_2BCREATED flags. OBJ_CREATED is set when we know the object exists on the OSD - - in create's callback function, and when we successfully do a read_inode. + in create's callback function, and when we successfully do a + read_inode. OBJ_2BCREATED is set in the beginning of the create function, so we know that we should wait. - create/delete: delete should wait until the object is created diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt index 05d5cf1d743f..867c5b50cb42 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt @@ -32,8 +32,8 @@ journal_dev=devnum When the external journal device's major/minor numbers identified through its new major/minor numbers encoded in devnum. -noload Don't load the journal on mounting. Note that this forces - mount of inconsistent filesystem, which can lead to +norecovery Don't load the journal on mounting. Note that this forces +noload mount of inconsistent filesystem, which can lead to various problems. data=journal All data are committed into the journal prior to being diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt index 6d94e0696f8c..af6885c3c821 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt @@ -153,8 +153,8 @@ journal_dev=devnum When the external journal device's major/minor numbers identified through its new major/minor numbers encoded in devnum. -noload Don't load the journal on mounting. Note that - if the filesystem was not unmounted cleanly, +norecovery Don't load the journal on mounting. Note that +noload if the filesystem was not unmounted cleanly, skipping the journal replay will lead to the filesystem containing inconsistencies that can lead to any number of problems. @@ -353,6 +353,12 @@ noauto_da_alloc replacing existing files via patterns such as system crashes before the delayed allocation blocks are forced to disk. +discard Controls whether ext4 should issue discard/TRIM +nodiscard(*) commands to the underlying block device when + blocks are freed. This is useful for SSD devices + and sparse/thinly-provisioned LUNs, but it is off + by default until sufficient testing has been done. + Data Mode ========= There are 3 different data modes: diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/00-INDEX b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/00-INDEX new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..2f68cd688769 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/00-INDEX @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +00-INDEX + - this file (nfs-related documentation). +Exporting + - explanation of how to make filesystems exportable. +knfsd-stats.txt + - statistics which the NFS server makes available to user space. +nfs.txt + - nfs client, and DNS resolution for fs_locations. +nfs41-server.txt + - info on the Linux server implementation of NFSv4 minor version 1. +nfs-rdma.txt + - how to install and setup the Linux NFS/RDMA client and server software +nfsroot.txt + - short guide on setting up a diskless box with NFS root filesystem. +rpc-cache.txt + - introduction to the caching mechanisms in the sunrpc layer. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Exporting b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting index 87019d2b5981..87019d2b5981 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Exporting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/knfsd-stats.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/knfsd-stats.txt index 64ced5149d37..64ced5149d37 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/knfsd-stats.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/knfsd-stats.txt diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs-rdma.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs-rdma.txt index e386f7e4bcee..e386f7e4bcee 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs-rdma.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs-rdma.txt diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs.txt index f50f26ce6cd0..f50f26ce6cd0 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs.txt diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs41-server.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.txt index 5920fe26e6ff..1bd0d0c05171 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs41-server.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.txt @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ interoperability problems with future clients. Known issues: conformant with the spec (for example, we don't use kerberos on the backchannel correctly). - no trunking support: no clients currently take advantage of - trunking, but this is a mandatory failure, and its use is + trunking, but this is a mandatory feature, and its use is recommended to clients in a number of places. (E.g. to ensure timely renewal in case an existing connection's retry timeouts have gotten too long; see section 8.3 of the draft.) @@ -213,3 +213,10 @@ The following cases aren't supported yet: DESTROY_CLIENTID, DESTROY_SESSION, EXCHANGE_ID. * DESTROY_SESSION MUST be the final operation in the COMPOUND request. +Nonstandard compound limitations: +* No support for a sessions fore channel RPC compound that requires both a + ca_maxrequestsize request and a ca_maxresponsesize reply, so we may + fail to live up to the promise we made in CREATE_SESSION fore channel + negotiation. +* No more than one IO operation (read, write, readdir) allowed per + compound. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt index 3ba0b945aaf8..3ba0b945aaf8 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/rpc-cache.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/rpc-cache.txt index 8a382bea6808..8a382bea6808 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/rpc-cache.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/rpc-cache.txt diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt index 01539f410676..4949fcaa6b6a 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt @@ -49,8 +49,7 @@ Mount options NILFS2 supports the following mount options: (*) == default -barrier=on(*) This enables/disables barriers. barrier=off disables - it, barrier=on enables it. +nobarrier Disables barriers. errors=continue(*) Keep going on a filesystem error. errors=remount-ro Remount the filesystem read-only on an error. errors=panic Panic and halt the machine if an error occurs. @@ -71,6 +70,10 @@ order=strict Apply strict in-order semantics that preserves sequence blocks. That means, it is guaranteed that no overtaking of events occurs in the recovered file system after a crash. +norecovery Disable recovery of the filesystem on mount. + This disables every write access on the device for + read-only mounts or snapshots. This option will fail + for r/w mounts on an unclean volume. NILFS2 usage ============ diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index 92b888d540a6..a7e9746ee7ea 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ Callers of notify_change() need ->i_mutex now. New super_block field "struct export_operations *s_export_op" for explicit support for exporting, e.g. via NFS. The structure is fully documented at its declaration in include/linux/fs.h, and in -Documentation/filesystems/Exporting. +Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting. Briefly it allows for the definition of decode_fh and encode_fh operations to encode and decode filehandles, and allows the filesystem to use diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 4af0018533f2..220cc6376ef8 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ Table of Contents 3.3 /proc/<pid>/io - Display the IO accounting fields 3.4 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter - Core dump filtering settings 3.5 /proc/<pid>/mountinfo - Information about mounts + 3.6 /proc/<pid>/comm & /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/comm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @@ -1089,8 +1090,8 @@ The "processes" line gives the number of processes and threads created, which includes (but is not limited to) those created by calls to the fork() and clone() system calls. -The "procs_running" line gives the number of processes currently running on -CPUs. +The "procs_running" line gives the total number of threads that are +running or ready to run (i.e., the total number of runnable threads). The "procs_blocked" line gives the number of processes currently blocked, waiting for I/O to complete. @@ -1409,3 +1410,11 @@ For more information on mount propagation see: Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt + +3.6 /proc/<pid>/comm & /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/comm +-------------------------------------------------------- +These files provide a method to access a tasks comm value. It also allows for +a task to set its own or one of its thread siblings comm value. The comm value +is limited in size compared to the cmdline value, so writing anything longer +then the kernel's TASK_COMM_LEN (currently 16 chars) will result in a truncated +comm value. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt index 0d15ebccf5b0..a1e2e0dda907 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt @@ -248,9 +248,7 @@ code, that is done in the initialization code in the usual way: { struct proc_dir_entry *entry; - entry = create_proc_entry("sequence", 0, NULL); - if (entry) - entry->proc_fops = &ct_file_ops; + proc_create("sequence", 0, NULL, &ct_file_ops); return 0; } diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index 623f094c9d8d..3de2f32edd90 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -472,7 +472,7 @@ __sync_single_inode) to check if ->writepages has been successful in writing out the whole address_space. The Writeback tag is used by filemap*wait* and sync_page* functions, -via wait_on_page_writeback_range, to wait for all writeback to +via filemap_fdatawait_range, to wait for all writeback to complete. While waiting ->sync_page (if defined) will be called on each page that is found to require writeback. |