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* nilfs2: move ioctl interface and disk layout to uapi separatelyRyusuke Konishi2016-08-021-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The header file "include/linux/nilfs2_fs.h" is composed of parts for ioctl and disk format, and both are intended to be shared with user space programs. This moves them to the uapi directory "include/uapi/linux" splitting the file to "nilfs2_api.h" and "nilfs2_ondisk.h". The following minor changes are accompanied by this migration: - nilfs_direct_node struct in nilfs2/direct.h is converged to nilfs2_ondisk.h because it's an on-disk structure. - inline functions nilfs_rec_len_from_disk() and nilfs_rec_len_to_disk() are moved to nilfs2/dir.c. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1465825507-3407-4-git-send-email-konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* nilfs2: clarify permission to replicate the designRyusuke Konishi2016-05-231-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | To respond to a certain developer's request, this explicitly state that developers can reimplement the nilfs2 design for other operating systems to share data stored in that format. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461935747-10380-7-git-send-email-konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* nilfs2: update project's web site in nilfs2.txtRyusuke Konishi2014-04-031-3/+2
| | | | | | | | | | Project's web site was moved to nilfs.sourceforge.net from www.nilfs.org. This updates the site information in Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt with the new location. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* nilfs2: implementation of NILFS_IOCTL_SET_SUINFO ioctlAndreas Rohner2014-04-031-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With this ioctl the segment usage entries in the SUFILE can be updated from userspace. This is useful, because it allows the userspace GC to modify and update segment usage entries for specific segments, which enables it to avoid unnecessary write operations. If a segment needs to be cleaned, but there is no or very little reclaimable space in it, the cleaning operation basically degrades to a useless moving operation. In the end the only thing that changes is the location of the data and a timestamp in the segment usage information. With this ioctl the GC can skip the cleaning and update the segment usage entries directly instead. This is basically a shortcut to cleaning the segment. It is still necessary to read the segment summary information, but the writing of the live blocks can be skipped if it's not worth it. [konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp: add description of NILFS_IOCTL_SET_SUINFO ioctl] Signed-off-by: Andreas Rohner <andreas.rohner@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* nilfs2: add comments for ioctlsVyacheslav Dubeyko2014-01-231-0/+56
| | | | | | | | | | | Add comments for ioctls in fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c file and describe NILFS2 specific ioctls in Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt. Signed-off-by: Vyacheslav Dubeyko <slava@dubeyko.com> Reviewed-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Wenliang Fan <fanwlexca@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* nilfs2: remove resize from unsupported features listRyusuke Konishi2011-07-131-1/+0
| | | | | | | | Resize feature was supported by the commit 4e33f9eab07e but it was not reflected to the list of unsupported features in nilfs2.txt file. This updates the list to fix discrepancy. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
* nilfs2: add nodiscard mount optionRyusuke Konishi2010-07-231-3/+4
| | | | | | | | | | Nilfs has "discard" mount option which issues discard/TRIM commands to underlying block device, but it lacks a complementary option and has no way to disable the feature through remount. This adds "nodiscard" option to resolve this imbalance. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
* nilfs2: add barrier mount optionRyusuke Konishi2010-07-231-1/+4
| | | | | | | | | | Nilfs enables write barriers by default and has "nobarrier" mount option to disable this feature. But it lacks the complementary option and has no way to re-enable the feature on remount. This adds "barrier" option to resolve this imbalance. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
* nilfs2: change default of 'errors' mount option to 'remount-ro' modeRyusuke Konishi2010-05-101-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | Like ext3, nilfs has 'errors' mount option to allow specifying desired behavior on severe errors. Currently, the default action is 'errors=continue' and has potential to advance filesystem corruption for severe errors. This will change the action to 'errors=remount-ro' to avoid the issue. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
* nilfs2: issue discard request after cleaning segmentsJiro SEKIBA2010-02-131-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | This adds a function to send discard requests for given array of segment numbers, and calls the function when garbage collection succeeded. Signed-off-by: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp> Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
* nilfs2: update mailing list addressRyusuke Konishi2010-01-021-1/+1
| | | | | | | This replaces the list address for nilfs discussion to linux-nilfs at vger.kernel.org from users at nilfs.org. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
* nilfs2: add norecovery mount optionRyusuke Konishi2009-11-201-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds "norecovery" mount option which disables temporal write access to read-only mounts or snapshots during mount/recovery. Without this option, write access will be even performed for those types of mounts; the temporal write access is needed to mount root file system read-only after an unclean shutdown. This option will be helpful when user wants to prevent any write access to the device. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
* nilfs2: Using nobarrier option instead of barrier=offJiro SEKIBA2009-11-201-2/+1
| | | | | | | | Since most of fs using nofoobar style option, modified barrier=off option as nobarrier. Signed-off-by: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp> Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
* nilfs2: modify list of unsupported features in caveatsRyusuke Konishi2009-06-101-3/+2
| | | | | | This clarifies missing features of nilfs as a regular filesystem. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
* nilfs2: clean up sketch fileRyusuke Konishi2009-04-071-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The sketch file is a file to mark checkpoints with user data. It was experimentally introduced in the original implementation, and now obsolete. The file was handled differently with regular files; the file size got truncated when a checkpoint was created. This stops the special treatment and will treat it as a regular file. Most users are not affected because mkfs.nilfs2 no longer makes this file. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* nilfs2: add documentRyusuke Konishi2009-04-071-0/+202
This adds a document describing the features, mount options, userland tools, usage, disk format, and related URLs for the nilfs2 file system. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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