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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt | 13 |
3 files changed, 28 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX b/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX index 8c624a18f67d..7b52ba7bf32a 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX @@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ dnotify_test.c - example program for dnotify ecryptfs.txt - docs on eCryptfs: stacked cryptographic filesystem for Linux. +efivarfs.txt + - info for the efivarfs filesystem. exofs.txt - info, usage, mount options, design about EXOFS. ext2.txt diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..c477af086e65 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ + +efivarfs - a (U)EFI variable filesystem + +The efivarfs filesystem was created to address the shortcomings of +using entries in sysfs to maintain EFI variables. The old sysfs EFI +variables code only supported variables of up to 1024 bytes. This +limitation existed in version 0.99 of the EFI specification, but was +removed before any full releases. Since variables can now be larger +than a single page, sysfs isn't the best interface for this. + +Variables can be created, deleted and modified with the efivarfs +filesystem. + +efivarfs is typically mounted like this, + + mount -t efivarfs none /sys/firmware/efi/efivars diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt index 3fc0c31a6f5d..3e4b3dd1e046 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ When mounting an XFS filesystem, the following options are accepted. Issue command to let the block device reclaim space freed by the filesystem. This is useful for SSD devices, thinly provisioned LUNs and virtual machine images, but may have a performance - impact. This option is incompatible with the nodelaylog option. + impact. dmapi Enable the DMAPI (Data Management API) event callouts. @@ -72,8 +72,15 @@ When mounting an XFS filesystem, the following options are accepted. Indicates that XFS is allowed to create inodes at any location in the filesystem, including those which will result in inode numbers occupying more than 32 bits of significance. This is - provided for backwards compatibility, but causes problems for - backup applications that cannot handle large inode numbers. + the default allocation option. Applications which do not handle + inode numbers bigger than 32 bits, should use inode32 option. + + inode32 + Indicates that XFS is limited to create inodes at locations which + will not result in inode numbers with more than 32 bits of + significance. This is provided for backwards compatibility, since + 64 bits inode numbers might cause problems for some applications + that cannot handle large inode numbers. largeio/nolargeio If "nolargeio" is specified, the optimal I/O reported in |