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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.rst index 98dc24f5c6f0..efc3493fd6f8 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.rst @@ -25,10 +25,14 @@ a consistency checking tool (fsck.f2fs), and a debugging tool (dump.f2fs). - git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs-tools.git -For reporting bugs and sending patches, please use the following mailing list: +For sending patches, please use the following mailing list: - linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net +For reporting bugs, please use the following f2fs bug tracker link: + +- https://bugzilla.kernel.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=File%20System&component=f2fs + Background and Design issues ============================ @@ -122,9 +126,7 @@ norecovery Disable the roll-forward recovery routine, mounted read- discard/nodiscard Enable/disable real-time discard in f2fs, if discard is enabled, f2fs will issue discard/TRIM commands when a segment is cleaned. -no_heap Disable heap-style segment allocation which finds free - segments for data from the beginning of main area, while - for node from the end of main area. +heap/no_heap Deprecated. nouser_xattr Disable Extended User Attributes. Note: xattr is enabled by default if CONFIG_F2FS_FS_XATTR is selected. noacl Disable POSIX Access Control List. Note: acl is enabled @@ -154,6 +156,8 @@ nobarrier This option can be used if underlying storage guarantees If this option is set, no cache_flush commands are issued but f2fs still guarantees the write ordering of all the data writes. +barrier If this option is set, cache_flush commands are allowed to be + issued. fastboot This option is used when a system wants to reduce mount time as much as possible, even though normal performance can be sacrificed. @@ -178,28 +182,31 @@ fault_type=%d Support configuring fault injection type, should be enabled with fault_injection option, fault type value is shown below, it supports single or combined type. - =================== =========== - Type_Name Type_Value - =================== =========== - FAULT_KMALLOC 0x000000001 - FAULT_KVMALLOC 0x000000002 - FAULT_PAGE_ALLOC 0x000000004 - FAULT_PAGE_GET 0x000000008 - FAULT_ALLOC_BIO 0x000000010 (obsolete) - FAULT_ALLOC_NID 0x000000020 - FAULT_ORPHAN 0x000000040 - FAULT_BLOCK 0x000000080 - FAULT_DIR_DEPTH 0x000000100 - FAULT_EVICT_INODE 0x000000200 - FAULT_TRUNCATE 0x000000400 - FAULT_READ_IO 0x000000800 - FAULT_CHECKPOINT 0x000001000 - FAULT_DISCARD 0x000002000 - FAULT_WRITE_IO 0x000004000 - FAULT_SLAB_ALLOC 0x000008000 - FAULT_DQUOT_INIT 0x000010000 - FAULT_LOCK_OP 0x000020000 - =================== =========== + =========================== =========== + Type_Name Type_Value + =========================== =========== + FAULT_KMALLOC 0x000000001 + FAULT_KVMALLOC 0x000000002 + FAULT_PAGE_ALLOC 0x000000004 + FAULT_PAGE_GET 0x000000008 + FAULT_ALLOC_BIO 0x000000010 (obsolete) + FAULT_ALLOC_NID 0x000000020 + FAULT_ORPHAN 0x000000040 + FAULT_BLOCK 0x000000080 + FAULT_DIR_DEPTH 0x000000100 + FAULT_EVICT_INODE 0x000000200 + FAULT_TRUNCATE 0x000000400 + FAULT_READ_IO 0x000000800 + FAULT_CHECKPOINT 0x000001000 + FAULT_DISCARD 0x000002000 + FAULT_WRITE_IO 0x000004000 + FAULT_SLAB_ALLOC 0x000008000 + FAULT_DQUOT_INIT 0x000010000 + FAULT_LOCK_OP 0x000020000 + FAULT_BLKADDR_VALIDITY 0x000040000 + FAULT_BLKADDR_CONSISTENCE 0x000080000 + FAULT_NO_SEGMENT 0x000100000 + =========================== =========== mode=%s Control block allocation mode which supports "adaptive" and "lfs". In "lfs" mode, there should be no random writes towards main area. @@ -221,8 +228,6 @@ mode=%s Control block allocation mode which supports "adaptive" option for more randomness. Please, use these options for your experiments and we strongly recommend to re-format the filesystem after using these options. -io_bits=%u Set the bit size of write IO requests. It should be set - with "mode=lfs". usrquota Enable plain user disk quota accounting. grpquota Enable plain group disk quota accounting. prjquota Enable plain project quota accounting. @@ -257,7 +262,7 @@ checkpoint=%s[:%u[%]] Set to "disable" to turn off checkpointing. Set to "enabl disabled, any unmounting or unexpected shutdowns will cause the filesystem contents to appear as they did when the filesystem was mounted with that option. - While mounting with checkpoint=disabled, the filesystem must + While mounting with checkpoint=disable, the filesystem must run garbage collection to ensure that all available space can be used. If this takes too much time, the mount may return EAGAIN. You may optionally add a value to indicate how much @@ -286,9 +291,8 @@ compress_algorithm=%s:%d Control compress algorithm and its compress level, now, algorithm level range lz4 3 - 16 zstd 1 - 22 -compress_log_size=%u Support configuring compress cluster size, the size will - be 4KB * (1 << %u), 16KB is minimum size, also it's - default size. +compress_log_size=%u Support configuring compress cluster size. The size will + be 4KB * (1 << %u). The default and minimum sizes are 16KB. compress_extension=%s Support adding specified extension, so that f2fs can enable compression on those corresponding files, e.g. if all files with '.ext' has high compression rate, we can set the '.ext' @@ -336,6 +340,31 @@ discard_unit=%s Control discard unit, the argument can be "block", "segment" default, it is helpful for large sized SMR or ZNS devices to reduce memory cost by getting rid of fs metadata supports small discard. +memory=%s Control memory mode. This supports "normal" and "low" modes. + "low" mode is introduced to support low memory devices. + Because of the nature of low memory devices, in this mode, f2fs + will try to save memory sometimes by sacrificing performance. + "normal" mode is the default mode and same as before. +age_extent_cache Enable an age extent cache based on rb-tree. It records + data block update frequency of the extent per inode, in + order to provide better temperature hints for data block + allocation. +errors=%s Specify f2fs behavior on critical errors. This supports modes: + "panic", "continue" and "remount-ro", respectively, trigger + panic immediately, continue without doing anything, and remount + the partition in read-only mode. By default it uses "continue" + mode. + ====================== =============== =============== ======== + mode continue remount-ro panic + ====================== =============== =============== ======== + access ops normal normal N/A + syscall errors -EIO -EROFS N/A + mount option rw ro N/A + pending dir write keep keep N/A + pending non-dir write drop keep N/A + pending node write drop keep N/A + pending meta write keep keep N/A + ====================== =============== =============== ======== ======================== ============================================================ Debugfs Entries @@ -449,7 +478,7 @@ Note: please refer to the manpage of dump.f2fs(8) to get full option list. sload.f2fs ---------- -The sload.f2fs gives a way to insert files and directories in the exisiting disk +The sload.f2fs gives a way to insert files and directories in the existing disk image. This tool is useful when building f2fs images given compiled files. Note: please refer to the manpage of sload.f2fs(8) to get full option list. @@ -761,7 +790,7 @@ Allocating disk space as a method of optimally implementing that function. However, once F2FS receives ioctl(fd, F2FS_IOC_SET_PIN_FILE) in prior to -fallocate(fd, DEFAULT_MODE), it allocates on-disk block addressess having +fallocate(fd, DEFAULT_MODE), it allocates on-disk block addresses having zero or random data, which is useful to the below scenario where: 1. create(fd) |