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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/exofs.txt | 23 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 2 |
7 files changed, 32 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX b/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX index f15621ee5599..7001782ab932 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX @@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ 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 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/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/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 4af0018533f2..94b9f2056f4c 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -1089,8 +1089,8 @@ 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. 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. |