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authorLachlan McIlroy <lachlan@redback.melbourne.sgi.com>2008-11-28 15:23:52 +1100
committerLachlan McIlroy <lachlan@redback.melbourne.sgi.com>2008-11-28 15:23:52 +1100
commitb5a20aa2657063cbf3b47fc700603180de4bb554 (patch)
tree9419fb851cda53a7f1fd67a3697bdf8550df19e4 /Documentation/filesystems
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parented313489badef16d700f5a3be50e8fd8f8294bc8 (diff)
downloadlinux-b5a20aa2657063cbf3b47fc700603180de4bb554.tar.bz2
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt32
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/xip.txt9
2 files changed, 35 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
index bbac4f1d9056..3a5ddc96901a 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,12 @@ if you want to format from within Linux.
VFAT MOUNT OPTIONS
----------------------------------------------------------------------
+uid=### -- Set the owner of all files on this filesystem.
+ The default is the uid of current process.
+
+gid=### -- Set the group of all files on this filesystem.
+ The default is the gid of current process.
+
umask=### -- The permission mask (for files and directories, see umask(1)).
The default is the umask of current process.
@@ -36,7 +42,7 @@ codepage=### -- Sets the codepage number for converting to shortname
characters on FAT filesystem.
By default, FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE setting is used.
-iocharset=name -- Character set to use for converting between the
+iocharset=<name> -- Character set to use for converting between the
encoding is used for user visible filename and 16 bit
Unicode characters. Long filenames are stored on disk
in Unicode format, but Unix for the most part doesn't
@@ -86,6 +92,8 @@ check=s|r|n -- Case sensitivity checking setting.
r: relaxed, case insensitive
n: normal, default setting, currently case insensitive
+nocase -- This was deprecated for vfat. Use shortname=win95 instead.
+
shortname=lower|win95|winnt|mixed
-- Shortname display/create setting.
lower: convert to lowercase for display,
@@ -99,11 +107,31 @@ shortname=lower|win95|winnt|mixed
tz=UTC -- Interpret timestamps as UTC rather than local time.
This option disables the conversion of timestamps
between local time (as used by Windows on FAT) and UTC
- (which Linux uses internally). This is particuluarly
+ (which Linux uses internally). This is particularly
useful when mounting devices (like digital cameras)
that are set to UTC in order to avoid the pitfalls of
local time.
+showexec -- If set, the execute permission bits of the file will be
+ allowed only if the extension part of the name is .EXE,
+ .COM, or .BAT. Not set by default.
+
+debug -- Can be set, but unused by the current implementation.
+
+sys_immutable -- If set, ATTR_SYS attribute on FAT is handled as
+ IMMUTABLE flag on Linux. Not set by default.
+
+flush -- If set, the filesystem will try to flush to disk more
+ early than normal. Not set by default.
+
+rodir -- FAT has the ATTR_RO (read-only) attribute. But on Windows,
+ the ATTR_RO of the directory will be just ignored actually,
+ and is used by only applications as flag. E.g. it's setted
+ for the customized folder.
+
+ If you want to use ATTR_RO as read-only flag even for
+ the directory, set this option.
+
<bool>: 0,1,yes,no,true,false
TODO
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/xip.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/xip.txt
index 3cc4010521a0..0466ee569278 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/xip.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/xip.txt
@@ -39,10 +39,11 @@ The block device operation is optional, these block devices support it as of
today:
- dcssblk: s390 dcss block device driver
-An address space operation named get_xip_page is used to retrieve reference
-to a struct page. To address the target page, a reference to an address_space,
-and a sector number is provided. A 3rd argument indicates whether the
-function should allocate blocks if needed.
+An address space operation named get_xip_mem is used to retrieve references
+to a page frame number and a kernel address. To obtain these values a reference
+to an address_space is provided. This function assigns values to the kmem and
+pfn parameters. The third argument indicates whether the function should allocate
+blocks if needed.
This address space operation is mutually exclusive with readpage&writepage that
do page cache read/write operations.