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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 24 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt | 23 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.txt | 33 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt | 4 |
6 files changed, 36 insertions, 65 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index 7e46991..6533807 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -338,21 +338,21 @@ fl_release_private: maybe no ----------------------- lock_manager_operations --------------------------- prototypes: - int (*fl_compare_owner)(struct file_lock *, struct file_lock *); - void (*fl_notify)(struct file_lock *); /* unblock callback */ - int (*fl_grant)(struct file_lock *, struct file_lock *, int); - void (*fl_release_private)(struct file_lock *); - void (*fl_break)(struct file_lock *); /* break_lease callback */ - int (*fl_change)(struct file_lock **, int); + int (*lm_compare_owner)(struct file_lock *, struct file_lock *); + void (*lm_notify)(struct file_lock *); /* unblock callback */ + int (*lm_grant)(struct file_lock *, struct file_lock *, int); + void (*lm_release_private)(struct file_lock *); + void (*lm_break)(struct file_lock *); /* break_lease callback */ + int (*lm_change)(struct file_lock **, int); locking rules: file_lock_lock may block -fl_compare_owner: yes no -fl_notify: yes no -fl_grant: no no -fl_release_private: maybe no -fl_break: yes no -fl_change yes no +lm_compare_owner: yes no +lm_notify: yes no +lm_grant: no no +lm_release_private: maybe no +lm_break: yes no +lm_change yes no --------------------------- buffer_head ----------------------------------- prototypes: diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt index ed52af6..742cc06 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt @@ -73,8 +73,8 @@ the following functions can be used instead: struct dentry *parent, u16 *value); struct dentry *debugfs_create_x32(const char *name, mode_t mode, struct dentry *parent, u32 *value); - -Note that there is no debugfs_create_x64(). + struct dentry *debugfs_create_x64(const char *name, mode_t mode, + struct dentry *parent, u64 *value); These functions are useful as long as the developer knows the size of the value to be exported. Some types can have different widths on different diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt index 272f80d..22f3a0e 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt @@ -147,15 +147,6 @@ grpjquota=<file> during journal replay. They replace the above package for more details (http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxquota). -bh (*) ext3 associates buffer heads to data pages to -nobh (a) cache disk block mapping information - (b) link pages into transaction to provide - ordering guarantees. - "bh" option forces use of buffer heads. - "nobh" option tries to avoid associating buffer - heads (supported only for "writeback" mode). - - Specification ============= Ext3 shares all disk implementation with the ext2 filesystem, and adds @@ -227,5 +218,5 @@ kernel source: <file:fs/ext3/> programs: http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ http://ext2resize.sourceforge.net -useful links: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs7.html - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs8.html +useful links: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs7/index.html + http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs8/index.html diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt index 3ae9bc9..232a575 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt @@ -68,12 +68,12 @@ Note: More extensive information for getting started with ext4 can be '-o barriers=[0|1]' mount option for both ext3 and ext4 filesystems for a fair comparison. When tuning ext3 for best benchmark numbers, it is often worthwhile to try changing the data journaling mode; '-o - data=writeback,nobh' can be faster for some workloads. (Note - however that running mounted with data=writeback can potentially - leave stale data exposed in recently written files in case of an - unclean shutdown, which could be a security exposure in some - situations.) Configuring the filesystem with a large journal can - also be helpful for metadata-intensive workloads. + data=writeback' can be faster for some workloads. (Note however that + running mounted with data=writeback can potentially leave stale data + exposed in recently written files in case of an unclean shutdown, + which could be a security exposure in some situations.) Configuring + the filesystem with a large journal can also be helpful for + metadata-intensive workloads. 2. Features =========== @@ -272,14 +272,6 @@ grpjquota=<file> during journal replay. They replace the above package for more details (http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxquota). -bh (*) ext4 associates buffer heads to data pages to -nobh (a) cache disk block mapping information - (b) link pages into transaction to provide - ordering guarantees. - "bh" option forces use of buffer heads. - "nobh" option tries to avoid associating buffer - heads (supported only for "writeback" mode). - stripe=n Number of filesystem blocks that mballoc will try to use for allocation size and alignment. For RAID5/6 systems this should be the number of data @@ -393,8 +385,7 @@ dioread_nolock locking. If the dioread_nolock option is specified write and convert the extent to initialized after IO completes. This approach allows ext4 code to avoid using inode mutex, which improves scalability on high - speed storages. However this does not work with nobh - option and the mount will fail. Nor does it work with + speed storages. However this does not work with data journaling and dioread_nolock option will be ignored with kernel warning. Note that dioread_nolock code path is only used for extent-based files. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.txt index 0488491..092fad9 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.txt @@ -39,27 +39,17 @@ interoperability problems with future clients. Known issues: from a linux client are possible, but we aren't really conformant with the spec (for example, we don't use kerberos on the backchannel correctly). - - no trunking support: no clients currently take advantage of - trunking, but this is a mandatory feature, and its use is - recommended to clients in a number of places. (E.g. to ensure - timely renewal in case an existing connection's retry timeouts - have gotten too long; see section 8.3 of the RFC.) - Therefore, lack of this feature may cause future clients to - fail. - Incomplete backchannel support: incomplete backchannel gss support and no support for BACKCHANNEL_CTL mean that callbacks (hence delegations and layouts) may not be available and clients confused by the incomplete implementation may fail. - - Server reboot recovery is unsupported; if the server reboots, - clients may fail. - We do not support SSV, which provides security for shared client-server state (thus preventing unauthorized tampering with locks and opens, for example). It is mandatory for servers to support this, though no clients use it yet. - Mandatory operations which we do not support, such as - DESTROY_CLIENTID, FREE_STATEID, SECINFO_NO_NAME, and - TEST_STATEID, are not currently used by clients, but will be + DESTROY_CLIENTID, are not currently used by clients, but will be (and the spec recommends their uses in common cases), and clients should not be expected to know how to recover from the case where they are not supported. This will eventually cause @@ -69,8 +59,9 @@ In addition, some limitations are inherited from the current NFSv4 implementation: - Incomplete delegation enforcement: if a file is renamed or - unlinked, a client holding a delegation may continue to - indefinitely allow opens of the file under the old name. + unlinked by a local process, a client holding a delegation may + continue to indefinitely allow opens of the file under the old + name. The table below, taken from the NFSv4.1 document, lists the operations that are mandatory to implement (REQ), optional @@ -99,7 +90,7 @@ Operations +----------------------+------------+--------------+----------------+ | ACCESS | REQ | | Section 18.1 | NS | BACKCHANNEL_CTL | REQ | | Section 18.33 | -NS | BIND_CONN_TO_SESSION | REQ | | Section 18.34 | +I | BIND_CONN_TO_SESSION | REQ | | Section 18.34 | | CLOSE | REQ | | Section 18.2 | | COMMIT | REQ | | Section 18.3 | | CREATE | REQ | | Section 18.4 | @@ -111,7 +102,7 @@ NS*| DELEGPURGE | OPT | FDELG (REQ) | Section 18.5 | NS | DESTROY_CLIENTID | REQ | | Section 18.50 | I | DESTROY_SESSION | REQ | | Section 18.37 | I | EXCHANGE_ID | REQ | | Section 18.35 | -NS | FREE_STATEID | REQ | | Section 18.38 | +I | FREE_STATEID | REQ | | Section 18.38 | | GETATTR | REQ | | Section 18.7 | P | GETDEVICEINFO | OPT | pNFS (REQ) | Section 18.40 | P | GETDEVICELIST | OPT | pNFS (OPT) | Section 18.41 | @@ -145,14 +136,14 @@ NS*| OPENATTR | OPT | | Section 18.17 | | RESTOREFH | REQ | | Section 18.27 | | SAVEFH | REQ | | Section 18.28 | | SECINFO | REQ | | Section 18.29 | -NS | SECINFO_NO_NAME | REC | pNFS files | Section 18.45, | +I | SECINFO_NO_NAME | REC | pNFS files | Section 18.45, | | | | layout (REQ) | Section 13.12 | I | SEQUENCE | REQ | | Section 18.46 | | SETATTR | REQ | | Section 18.30 | | SETCLIENTID | MNI | | N/A | | SETCLIENTID_CONFIRM | MNI | | N/A | NS | SET_SSV | REQ | | Section 18.47 | -NS | TEST_STATEID | REQ | | Section 18.48 | +I | TEST_STATEID | REQ | | Section 18.48 | | VERIFY | REQ | | Section 18.31 | NS*| WANT_DELEGATION | OPT | FDELG (OPT) | Section 18.49 | | WRITE | REQ | | Section 18.32 | @@ -206,12 +197,6 @@ CREATE_SESSION: SEQUENCE: * no support for dynamic slot table renegotiation (optional) -nfsv4.1 COMPOUND rules: -The following cases aren't supported yet: -* Enforcing of NFS4ERR_NOT_ONLY_OP for: BIND_CONN_TO_SESSION, CREATE_SESSION, - DESTROY_CLIENTID, DESTROY_SESSION, EXCHANGE_ID. -* DESTROY_SESSION MUST be the final operation in the COMPOUND request. - Nonstandard compound limitations: * No support for a sessions fore channel RPC compound that requires both a ca_maxrequestsize request and a ca_maxresponsesize reply, so we may @@ -219,3 +204,5 @@ Nonstandard compound limitations: negotiation. * No more than one IO operation (read, write, readdir) allowed per compound. + +See also http://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/Server_4.0_and_4.1_issues. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt index d4d41465..7db3ebd 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SQUASHFS 4.0 FILESYSTEM ======================= Squashfs is a compressed read-only filesystem for Linux. -It uses zlib/lzo compression to compress files, inodes and directories. +It uses zlib/lzo/xz compression to compress files, inodes and directories. Inodes in the system are very small and all blocks are packed to minimise data overhead. Block sizes greater than 4K are supported up to a maximum of 1Mbytes (default block size 128K). @@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ create populated squashfs filesystems. This and other squashfs utilities can be obtained from http://www.squashfs.org. Usage instructions can be obtained from this site also. +The squashfs-tools development tree is now located on kernel.org + git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/squashfs/squashfs-tools.git 3. SQUASHFS FILESYSTEM DESIGN ----------------------------- |
