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Miklos Szeredi
c86d90df26 [doc] add paragraph about 'fs' subsystem to sysfs.txt
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
2006-04-26 10:49:26 +02:00
Pekka J Enberg
d1195c516a [PATCH] vfs: add splice_write and splice_read to documentation
This patch adds the new splice_write and splice_read file operations to
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-04-11 14:21:59 +02:00
Jesper Juhl
50fc9999ec [PATCH] Docs update: missing files and descriptions for filesystems/00-INDEX
Add missing files and descriptions to
 Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28 09:16:06 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
1e8c573933 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (21 commits)
  BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/video/
  BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/parisc/
  BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/block/
  BUG_ON() Conversion in sound/sparc/cs4231.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/s390/block/dasd.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in lib/swiotlb.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in kernel/cpu.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in ipc/msg.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in block/elevator.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/coda/
  BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in input/serio/hil_mlc.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in md/dm-hw-handler.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in md/bitmap.c
  The comment describing how MS_ASYNC works in msync.c is confusing
  rcu: undeclared variable used in documentation
  fix typos "wich" -> "which"
  typo patch for fs/ufs/super.c
  Fix simple typos
  tabify drivers/char/Makefile
  ...
2006-03-25 08:41:09 -08:00
NeilBrown
a9e102b60c [PATCH] More corrections to vfs.txt update
Thanks "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>

Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:23:02 -08:00
Phillip Susi
0e6b3e5e97 [PATCH] udf: fix uid/gid options and add uid/gid=ignore and forget options
As Pekka Enberg pointed out, with the if still following the else, you can
still get a null uid written to the disk if you specify a default uid= without
uid=forget.  In other words, if the desktop user is uid=1000 and the mount
option uid=1000 is given ( which is done on ubuntu automatically and probably
other distributions that use hal ), then if any other user besides uid 1000
owns a file then a 0 will be written to the media as the owning uid instead.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:23:00 -08:00
NeilBrown
341546f5ad [PATCH] Update some VFS documentation
Flesh out the description of the address_space operations.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Avishay Traeger <atraeger@cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:22:57 -08:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
ed1f559b9b [PATCH] 9p: update documentation
Fix documentation to match current implementation.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:22:54 -08:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
67543e508d [PATCH] 9p: fix name consistency problems
There were a number of conflicting naming schemes used in the v9fs project.
The directory was fs/9p, but MAINTAINERS and Documentation referred to
v9fs.  The module name itself was 9p2000, and the file system type was 9P.
This patch attempts to clean that up, changing all references to 9p in
order to match the directory name.  We'll also start using 9p instead of
v9fs as our patch prefix.

There is also a minor consistency cleanup in the options changing the name
option to uname in order to more closely match the Plan 9 options.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergevan <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:22:54 -08:00
Uwe Zeisberger
c30fe7f731 fix typos "wich" -> "which"
Signed-off-by: Uwe Zeisberger <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-03-24 18:23:14 +01:00
Anton Altaparmakov
e750d1c7cc NTFS: 2.1.27 - Various bug fixes and cleanups.
Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
2006-03-23 17:04:12 +00:00
Alexey Dobriyan
4de151d8cd It's UTF-8
Fix some comments to "UTF-8".

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-03-22 00:13:35 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
2cb5b6beef Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aia21/ntfs-2.6 2006-02-24 14:36:42 -08:00
Hugh Dickins
ad329b1519 [PATCH] tmpfs: recommend remount for mpol
akpm points out that switching to a non-NUMA kernel could be irritating
if mounting tmpfs fails on an mpol option: tmpfs.txt recommend remount.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-24 14:31:39 -08:00
Anton Altaparmakov
1cf3109ffb NTFS: Do more detailed reporting of why we cannot mount read-write by
special casing the VOLUME_MODIFIED_BY_CHKDSK flag.

Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
2006-02-24 10:48:14 +00:00
Hugh Dickins
b00dc3ad74 [PATCH] tmpfs: fix mount mpol nodelist parsing
I've been dissatisfied with the mpol_nodelist mount option which was
added to tmpfs earlier in -rc.  Replace it by mpol=policy:nodelist.

And it was broken: a nodelist is a comma-separated list of numbers and
ranges; the mount options are a comma-separated list of token=values.
Whoops, blindly strsep'ing on commas doesn't work so well: since we've
no numeric tokens, and unlikely to add them, use that to distinguish.

Move the mpol= parsing to shmem_parse_mpol under CONFIG_NUMA, reject
all its options as invalid if not NUMA.  /proc shows MPOL_PREFERRED
as "prefer", so use that name for the policy instead of "preferred".

Enforce that mpol=default has no nodelist; that mpol=prefer has one
node only; that mpol=bind has a nodelist; but let mpol=interleave use
node_online_map if no nodelist given.  Describe this in tmpfs.txt.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Acked-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-21 17:10:15 -08:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
e1c9211755 [PATCH] v9fs: update documentation and fix debug flag
Minor updates to the documentation to bring them into sync with current
websites and available features.  The debug flag was switched back to hex
to match the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-20 20:00:11 -08:00
Joel Becker
3d0f89bb16 configfs: Add permission and ownership to configfs objects.
configfs always made item and attribute ownership root.root and
permissions based on a umask of 022.  Add ->setattr() to allow
chown(2)/chmod(2), and persist the changes for the lifetime of the
items and attributes.

Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-02-03 14:01:05 -08:00
J. Bruce Fields
0d419a6a95 [OCFS2] Documentation Fix
Update ocfs2.txt to add "cluster aware lockf" under missing features.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-02-03 13:47:19 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi
bacac382fb [PATCH] fuse: update documentation for sysfs
Add documentation for new attributes in sysfs.  Also describe the filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-16 23:15:31 -08:00
Robin Holt
7339ff8302 [PATCH] Add tmpfs options for memory placement policies
Anything that writes into a tmpfs filesystem is liable to disproportionately
decrease the available memory on a particular node.  Since there's no telling
what sort of application (e.g.  dd/cp/cat) might be dropping large files
there, this lets the admin choose the appropriate default behavior for their
site's situation.

Introduce a tmpfs mount option which allows specifying a memory policy and
a second option to specify the nodelist for that policy.  With the default
policy, tmpfs will behave as it does today.  This patch adds support for
preferred, bind, and interleave policies.

The default policy will cause pages to be added to tmpfs files on the node
which is doing the writing.  Some jobs expect a single process to create
and manage the tmpfs files.  This results in a node which has a
significantly reduced number of free pages.

With this patch, the administrator can specify the policy and nodes for
that policy where they would prefer allocations.

This patch was originally written by Brent Casavant and Hugh Dickins.  I
added support for the bind and preferred policies and the mpol_nodelist
mount option.

Signed-off-by: Brent Casavant <bcasavan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:07 -08:00
Tore Anderson
e56d5ae305 [PATCH] ext3: fix documentation of online resizing
Undocument the non-working resize= mount option in ext3, and add some
references to the ext2resize package instead, which appears to be the only
proper way of doing online resizing of ext3 filesystems.

Signed-off-by: Tore Anderson <tore@fud.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 18:42:10 -08:00
Jesper Juhl
c63ca3c8b0 [PATCH] Docs update: small spelling, formating etc fixes for filesystems/ext3.txt
Spelling fixes, formating changes and corrections for
 Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:54 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
977127174a Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6 2006-01-09 18:41:42 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
e82443c092 Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: indentation fix
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-01-10 00:20:30 +01:00
Jesse Barnes
5d135dff53 [PATCH] PCI: document sysfs rom file interface
idr gently pointed out today that not only is the sysfs rom file
interface somewhat unintuitive (despite my efforts and initial
implementation), but it's also undocumented!  This patch to
Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt corrects the latter problem; the
former is a userland ABI now though, so we're stuck with it for awhile
at least.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-09 12:13:19 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
6150c32589 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-merge 2006-01-09 10:03:44 -08:00
Rob Landley
99aef427e2 [PATCH] update to the initramfs docs
Based on questions people have asked me.  Repeatedly.

Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:00 -08:00
Johann Lombardi
71b9625744 [PATCH] ext3: external journal device as a mount option
The patch below adds a new mount option to allow the external journal
device to be specified.

The syntax is as follows:
# mount -t ext3 -o journal_dev=0x0820 ...
where 0x0820 means major=8 and minor=32.

Signed-off-by: Johann Lombardi <johann.lombardi@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:56 -08:00
Tom Zanussi
6b34350f49 [PATCH] relayfs: Documentation cleanup, remove obsolete info
librelay and relay-app.h have been retired - update Documentation to reflect
that.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:51 -08:00
Tom Zanussi
df49af8f33 [PATCH] relayfs: add Documentation on global relay buffers
Documentation update for creating global buffers.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:50 -08:00
Tom Zanussi
03d78d11d9 [PATCH] relayfs: add Documentation on relay files in other filesystems
Documentation update for creating relay files in other filesystems.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:50 -08:00
Tom Zanussi
925ac8a2b6 [PATCH] relayfs: add Documention for non-relay files
Documentation update for non-relay files.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:50 -08:00
Andrew Morton
9d0243bca3 [PATCH] drop-pagecache
Add /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches.  When written to, this will cause the kernel to
discard as much pagecache and/or reclaimable slab objects as it can.  THis
operation requires root permissions.

It won't drop dirty data, so the user should run `sync' first.

Caveats:

a) Holds inode_lock for exorbitant amounts of time.

b) Needs to be taught about NUMA nodes: propagate these all the way through
   so the discarding can be controlled on a per-node basis.

This is a debugging feature: useful for getting consistent results between
filesystem benchmarks.  We could possibly put it under a config option, but
it's less than 300 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:12:40 -08:00
Arnd Bergmann
67207b9664 [PATCH] spufs: The SPU file system, base
This is the current version of the spu file system, used
for driving SPEs on the Cell Broadband Engine.

This release is almost identical to the version for the
2.6.14 kernel posted earlier, which is available as part
of the Cell BE Linux distribution from
http://www.bsc.es/projects/deepcomputing/linuxoncell/.

The first patch provides all the interfaces for running
spu application, but does not have any support for
debugging SPU tasks or for scheduling. Both these
functionalities are added in the subsequent patches.

See Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt on how to use
spufs.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-09 14:49:12 +11:00
Linus Torvalds
29552b1462 Merge http://oss.oracle.com/git/ocfs2 2006-01-05 20:43:11 -08:00
Mark Fasheh
ccd979bdbc [PATCH] OCFS2: The Second Oracle Cluster Filesystem
The OCFS2 file system module.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Kurt Hackel <kurt.hackel@oracle.com>
2006-01-03 11:45:47 -08:00
Mark Fasheh
8df08c89c6 [PATCH] OCFS2: The Second Oracle Cluster Filesystem
dlmfs: A minimal dlm userspace interface implemented via a virtual
file system.
Most of the OCFS2 tools make use of this to take cluster locks when
doing operations on the file system.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Kurt Hackel <kurt.hackel@oracle.com>
2006-01-03 11:45:47 -08:00
Joel Becker
7063fbf226 [PATCH] configfs: User-driven configuration filesystem
Configfs, a file system for userspace-driven kernel object configuration.
The OCFS2 stack makes extensive use of this for propagation of cluster
configuration information into kernel.

Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
2006-01-03 11:45:28 -08:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
48d727a9f9 Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX: remove entry for fat_cvf.txt
Remove non-existing entry for fat_cvf.txt (was it ever supported?).

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-01-03 13:44:23 +01:00
Jim Cromie
e3e1bfe4f2 Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt: typo fix
This patch removes an extra occurrence of 'generic'.

Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-01-03 13:35:41 +01:00
Andreas Gruenbacher
85b8724249 [PATCH] ext3: fix mount options documentation
Reported by Jacques de Mer and Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-12-12 08:57:42 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
98766fbe60 [PATCH] kernel Doc/ URL corrections
Correct lots of URLs in Documentation/ Also a few minor whitespace cleanups
and typo/spello fixes.  Sadly there are still a lot of bad URLs remaining.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-22 09:14:30 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
2860b733f1 [PATCH] remove CONFIG_EXT{2,3}_CHECK
The CONFIG_EXT{2,3}_CHECK options where were never available, and all they
did was to implement a subset of e2fsck in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-09 07:55:58 -08:00
Rob Landley
7f46a240b0 [PATCH] ramfs, rootfs, and initramfs docs
Docs for ramfs, rootfs, and initramfs.

Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:56 -08:00
Pekka Enberg
cbf8f0f36a [PATCH] VFS: split dentry locking documentation
This patch splits dentry locking documentation from
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt to a separate file.  The dentry locking
bits are useful but do not fit into the VFS overview document as is.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:56 -08:00
Pekka Enberg
cc7d1f8f96 [PATCH] VFS: update overview document
This patch updates the Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt document.  I
rearranged and rewrote parts of the introduction chapter and added better
headings for each section.  I also added a description for the inode
rename() operation which was missing and added links to some useful
external VFS documentation.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:55 -08:00
Jesper Juhl
62a07e6e9e [PATCH] ksymoops related docs update
Update ksymoops related documentation to reflect current 2.6 reality.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:54 -08:00
Nathan Scott
fc97bbf35d [XFS] Update XFS documentation.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-03 13:46:43 +11:00
Anton Altaparmakov
98b270362b NTFS: The big ntfs write(2) rewrite has arrived. We now implement our own
file operations ->write(), ->aio_write(), and ->writev() for regular
      files.  This replaces the old use of generic_file_write(), et al and
      the address space operations ->prepare_write and ->commit_write.
      This means that both sparse and non-sparse (unencrypted and
      uncompressed) files can now be extended using the normal write(2)
      code path.  There are two limitations at present and these are that
      we never create sparse files and that we only have limited support
      for highly fragmented files, i.e. ones whose data attribute is split
      across multiple extents.   When such a case is encountered,
      EOPNOTSUPP is returned.

Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
2005-10-11 15:40:40 +01:00