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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/autofs4-mount-control.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/hfsplus.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/nfs/00-INDEX | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 16 |
9 files changed, 40 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX b/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX index 632211cbdd56..ac28149aede4 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX @@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ - this file (info on some of the filesystems supported by linux). Locking - info on locking rules as they pertain to Linux VFS. +Makefile + - Makefile for building the filsystems-part of DocBook. 9p.txt - 9p (v9fs) is an implementation of the Plan 9 remote fs protocol. adfs.txt diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index 5b0c083d7c0e..f424e0e5b46b 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ prototypes: int (*mknod) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,umode_t,dev_t); int (*rename) (struct inode *, struct dentry *, struct inode *, struct dentry *); + int (*rename2) (struct inode *, struct dentry *, + struct inode *, struct dentry *, unsigned int); int (*readlink) (struct dentry *, char __user *,int); void * (*follow_link) (struct dentry *, struct nameidata *); void (*put_link) (struct dentry *, struct nameidata *, void *); @@ -78,6 +80,7 @@ mkdir: yes unlink: yes (both) rmdir: yes (both) (see below) rename: yes (all) (see below) +rename2: yes (all) (see below) readlink: no follow_link: no put_link: no @@ -96,7 +99,8 @@ tmpfile: no Additionally, ->rmdir(), ->unlink() and ->rename() have ->i_mutex on victim. - cross-directory ->rename() has (per-superblock) ->s_vfs_rename_sem. + cross-directory ->rename() and rename2() has (per-superblock) +->s_vfs_rename_sem. See Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking for more detailed discussion of the locking scheme for directory operations. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/autofs4-mount-control.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/autofs4-mount-control.txt index 4c95935cbcf4..aff22113a986 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/autofs4-mount-control.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/autofs4-mount-control.txt @@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_OPENMOUNT and AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_CLOSEMOUNT Obtain and release a file descriptor for an autofs managed mount point path. The open call requires an initialized struct autofs_dev_ioctl with -the the path field set and the size field adjusted appropriately as well +the path field set and the size field adjusted appropriately as well as the arg1 field set to the device number of the autofs mount. The device number can be obtained from the mount options shown in /proc/mounts. The close call requires an initialized struct diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/hfsplus.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/hfsplus.txt index af1628a1061c..59f7569fc9ed 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/hfsplus.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/hfsplus.txt @@ -56,4 +56,4 @@ References kernel source: <file:fs/hfsplus> -Apple Technote 1150 http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1150.html +Apple Technote 1150 https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/technotes/tn/tn1150.html diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/00-INDEX b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/00-INDEX index 66eb6c8c5334..53f3b596ac0d 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/00-INDEX @@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ 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 +nfsd-admin-interfaces.txt + - Administrative interfaces for nfsd. nfsroot.txt - short guide on setting up a diskless box with NFS root filesystem. pnfs.txt @@ -20,5 +22,5 @@ rpc-cache.txt - introduction to the caching mechanisms in the sunrpc layer. idmapper.txt - information for configuring request-keys to be used by idmapper -knfsd-rpcgss.txt +rpc-server-gss.txt - Information on GSS authentication support in the NFS Server diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt index 06887d46ccf2..41c3d332acc9 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt @@ -25,9 +25,8 @@ available from the following download page. At least "mkfs.nilfs2", cleaner or garbage collector) are required. Details on the tools are described in the man pages included in the package. -Project web page: http://www.nilfs.org/en/ -Download page: http://www.nilfs.org/en/download.html -Git tree web page: http://www.nilfs.org/git/ +Project web page: http://nilfs.sourceforge.net/ +Download page: http://nilfs.sourceforge.net/en/download.html List info: http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-nilfs Caveats @@ -111,6 +110,13 @@ Table of NILFS2 specific ioctls nilfs_resize utilities and by nilfs_cleanerd daemon. + NILFS_IOCTL_SET_SUINFO Modify segment usage info of requested + segments. This ioctl is used by + nilfs_cleanerd daemon to skip unnecessary + cleaning operation of segments and reduce + performance penalty or wear of flash device + due to redundant move of in-use blocks. + NILFS_IOCTL_GET_SUSTAT Return segment usage statistics. This ioctl is used in lssu, nilfs_resize utilities and by nilfs_cleanerd daemon. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt index 791af8dac065..61947facfc07 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt @@ -455,8 +455,6 @@ not have this problem with odd numbers of sectors. ChangeLog ========= -Note, a technical ChangeLog aimed at kernel hackers is in fs/ntfs/ChangeLog. - 2.1.30: - Fix writev() (it kept writing the first segment over and over again instead of moving onto subsequent segments). diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index fe2b7ae6f962..0f3a1390bf00 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -295,9 +295,9 @@ in the beginning of ->setattr unconditionally. ->clear_inode() and ->delete_inode() are gone; ->evict_inode() should be used instead. It gets called whenever the inode is evicted, whether it has remaining links or not. Caller does *not* evict the pagecache or inode-associated -metadata buffers; getting rid of those is responsibility of method, as it had -been for ->delete_inode(). Caller makes sure async writeback cannot be running -for the inode while (or after) ->evict_inode() is called. +metadata buffers; the method has to use truncate_inode_pages_final() to get rid +of those. Caller makes sure async writeback cannot be running for the inode while +(or after) ->evict_inode() is called. ->drop_inode() returns int now; it's called on final iput() with inode->i_lock held and it returns true if filesystems wants the inode to be diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index c53784c119c8..94eb86287bcb 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -347,6 +347,8 @@ struct inode_operations { int (*mknod) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,umode_t,dev_t); int (*rename) (struct inode *, struct dentry *, struct inode *, struct dentry *); + int (*rename2) (struct inode *, struct dentry *, + struct inode *, struct dentry *, unsigned int); int (*readlink) (struct dentry *, char __user *,int); void * (*follow_link) (struct dentry *, struct nameidata *); void (*put_link) (struct dentry *, struct nameidata *, void *); @@ -414,6 +416,20 @@ otherwise noted. rename: called by the rename(2) system call to rename the object to have the parent and name given by the second inode and dentry. + rename2: this has an additional flags argument compared to rename. + If no flags are supported by the filesystem then this method + need not be implemented. If some flags are supported then the + filesystem must return -EINVAL for any unsupported or unknown + flags. Currently the following flags are implemented: + (1) RENAME_NOREPLACE: this flag indicates that if the target + of the rename exists the rename should fail with -EEXIST + instead of replacing the target. The VFS already checks for + existence, so for local filesystems the RENAME_NOREPLACE + implementation is equivalent to plain rename. + (2) RENAME_EXCHANGE: exchange source and target. Both must + exist; this is checked by the VFS. Unlike plain rename, + source and target may be of different type. + readlink: called by the readlink(2) system call. Only required if you want to support reading symbolic links |