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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting | 27 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt | 2 |
7 files changed, 34 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt index 3be3b26..70cb68b 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt @@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ stall the CPU for an extended period, you should also not attempt to implement direct_access. These block devices may be used for inspiration: -- axonram: Axon DDR2 device driver - brd: RAM backed block device driver - dcssblk: s390 dcss block device driver - pmem: NVDIMM persistent memory driver diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt index 5575539..81c0bec 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt @@ -49,12 +49,10 @@ sb=n Use alternate superblock at this location. user_xattr Enable "user." POSIX Extended Attributes (requires CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XATTR). - See also http://acl.bestbits.at nouser_xattr Don't support "user." extended attributes. acl Enable POSIX Access Control Lists support (requires CONFIG_EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL). - See also http://acl.bestbits.at noacl Don't support POSIX ACLs. nobh Do not attach buffer_heads to file pagecache. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt index 75236c0..7f628b9 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt @@ -202,15 +202,14 @@ inode_readahead_blks=n This tuning parameter controls the maximum the buffer cache. The default value is 32 blocks. nouser_xattr Disables Extended User Attributes. See the - attr(5) manual page and http://acl.bestbits.at/ - for more information about extended attributes. + attr(5) manual page for more information about + extended attributes. noacl This option disables POSIX Access Control List support. If ACL support is enabled in the kernel configuration (CONFIG_EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL), ACL is enabled by default on mount. See the acl(5) manual - page and http://acl.bestbits.at/ for more information - about acl. + page for more information about acl. bsddf (*) Make 'df' act like BSD. minixdf Make 'df' act like Minix. @@ -233,7 +232,7 @@ data_err=ignore(*) Just print an error message if an error occurs data_err=abort Abort the journal if an error occurs in a file data buffer in ordered mode. -grpid Give objects the same group ID as their creator. +grpid New objects have the group ID of their parent. bsdgroups nogrpid (*) New objects have the group ID of their creator. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst index 776ddc6..cfbc18f 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst @@ -448,8 +448,14 @@ astute users may notice some differences in behavior: - The st_size of an encrypted symlink will not necessarily give the length of the symlink target as required by POSIX. It will actually - give the length of the ciphertext, which may be slightly longer than - the plaintext due to the NUL-padding. + give the length of the ciphertext, which will be slightly longer + than the plaintext due to NUL-padding and an extra 2-byte overhead. + +- The maximum length of an encrypted symlink is 2 bytes shorter than + the maximum length of an unencrypted symlink. For example, on an + EXT4 filesystem with a 4K block size, unencrypted symlinks can be up + to 4095 bytes long, while encrypted symlinks can only be up to 4093 + bytes long (both lengths excluding the terminating null). Note that mmap *is* supported. This is possible because the pagecache for an encrypted file contains the plaintext, not the ciphertext. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting index 520a4be..6388914 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting @@ -56,13 +56,25 @@ a/ A dentry flag DCACHE_DISCONNECTED which is set on any dentry that might not be part of the proper prefix. This is set when anonymous dentries are created, and cleared when a dentry is noticed to be a child of a dentry which is in the proper - prefix. - -b/ A per-superblock list "s_anon" of dentries which are the roots of - subtrees that are not in the proper prefix. These dentries, as - well as the proper prefix, need to be released at unmount time. As - these dentries will not be hashed, they are linked together on the - d_hash list_head. + prefix. If the refcount on a dentry with this flag set + becomes zero, the dentry is immediately discarded, rather than being + kept in the dcache. If a dentry that is not already in the dcache + is repeatedly accessed by filehandle (as NFSD might do), an new dentry + will be a allocated for each access, and discarded at the end of + the access. + + Note that such a dentry can acquire children, name, ancestors, etc. + without losing DCACHE_DISCONNECTED - that flag is only cleared when + subtree is successfully reconnected to root. Until then dentries + in such subtree are retained only as long as there are references; + refcount reaching zero means immediate eviction, same as for unhashed + dentries. That guarantees that we won't need to hunt them down upon + umount. + +b/ A primitive for creation of secondary roots - d_obtain_root(inode). + Those do _not_ bear DCACHE_DISCONNECTED. They are placed on the + per-superblock list (->s_roots), so they can be located at umount + time for eviction purposes. c/ Helper routines to allocate anonymous dentries, and to help attach loose directory dentries at lookup time. They are: @@ -77,7 +89,6 @@ c/ Helper routines to allocate anonymous dentries, and to help attach (such as an anonymous one created by d_obtain_alias), if appropriate. It returns NULL when the passed-in dentry is used, following the calling convention of ->lookup. - Filesystem Issues ----------------- diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt index 9a3658c..a1426ca 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt @@ -154,8 +154,8 @@ static ssize_t dev_attr_show(struct kobject *kobj, struct attribute *attr, if (dev_attr->show) ret = dev_attr->show(dev, dev_attr, buf); if (ret >= (ssize_t)PAGE_SIZE) { - print_symbol("dev_attr_show: %s returned bad count\n", - (unsigned long)dev_attr->show); + printk("dev_attr_show: %pS returned bad count\n", + dev_attr->show); } return ret; } diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt index cf51360..9103129 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt @@ -344,4 +344,4 @@ the following: characters in the final slot are set to Unicode 0xFFFF. Finally, note that the extended name is stored in Unicode. Each Unicode -character takes two bytes. +character takes either two or four bytes, UTF-16LE encoded. |
