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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/autofs4-mount-control.txt | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ceph.txt | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/dlmfs.txt | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt | 12 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt | 12 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/logfs.txt | 8 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.txt | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/nfs/rpc-cache.txt | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt | 7 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 13 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 2 |
15 files changed, 43 insertions, 33 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index 06bbbed71206..af1608070cd5 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ prototypes: locking rules: All except set_page_dirty may block - BKL PageLocked(page) i_sem + BKL PageLocked(page) i_mutex writepage: no yes, unlocks (see below) readpage: no yes, unlocks sync_page: no maybe @@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ check_flags: no implementations. If your fs is not using generic_file_llseek, you need to acquire and release the appropriate locks in your ->llseek(). For many filesystems, it is probably safe to acquire the inode -semaphore. Note some filesystems (i.e. remote ones) provide no +mutex. Note some filesystems (i.e. remote ones) provide no protection for i_size so you will need to use the BKL. Note: ext2_release() was *the* source of contention on fs-intensive diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/autofs4-mount-control.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/autofs4-mount-control.txt index 8f78ded4b648..51986bf08a4d 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/autofs4-mount-control.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/autofs4-mount-control.txt @@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ found to be inadequate, in this case. The Generic Netlink system was used for this as raw Netlink would lead to a significant increase in complexity. There's no question that the Generic Netlink system is an elegant solution for common case ioctl functions but it's not a complete -replacement probably because it's primary purpose in life is to be a +replacement probably because its primary purpose in life is to be a message bus implementation rather than specifically an ioctl replacement. While it would be possible to work around this there is one concern that lead to the decision to not use it. This is that the autofs diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ceph.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ceph.txt index 0660c9f5deef..763d8ebbbebd 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ceph.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ceph.txt @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ Mount Options Specify the IP and/or port the client should bind to locally. There is normally not much reason to do this. If the IP is not specified, the client's IP address is determined by looking at the - address it's connection to the monitor originates from. + address its connection to the monitor originates from. wsize=X Specify the maximum write size in bytes. By default there is no diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/dlmfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/dlmfs.txt index c50bbb2d52b4..1b528b2ad809 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/dlmfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/dlmfs.txt @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ You'll want to start heartbeating on a volume which all the nodes in your lockspace can access. The easiest way to do this is via ocfs2_hb_ctl (distributed with ocfs2-tools). Right now it requires that an OCFS2 file system be in place so that it can automatically -find it's heartbeat area, though it will eventually support heartbeat +find its heartbeat area, though it will eventually support heartbeat against raw disks. Please see the ocfs2_hb_ctl and mkfs.ocfs2 manual pages distributed diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt index 606233cd4618..1b805a0efbb0 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ flags, it will return EBADR and the contents of fm_flags will contain the set of flags which caused the error. If the kernel is compatible with all flags passed, the contents of fm_flags will be unmodified. It is up to userspace to determine whether rejection of a particular -flag is fatal to it's operation. This scheme is intended to allow the +flag is fatal to its operation. This scheme is intended to allow the fiemap interface to grow in the future but without losing compatibility with old software. @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ If this flag is set, the kernel will sync the file before mapping extents. * FIEMAP_FLAG_XATTR If this flag is set, the extents returned will describe the inodes -extended attribute lookup tree, instead of it's data tree. +extended attribute lookup tree, instead of its data tree. Extent Mapping @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ struct fiemap_extent { }; All offsets and lengths are in bytes and mirror those on disk. It is valid -for an extents logical offset to start before the request or it's logical +for an extents logical offset to start before the request or its logical length to extend past the request. Unless FIEMAP_EXTENT_NOT_ALIGNED is returned, fe_logical, fe_physical, and fe_length will be aligned to the block size of the file system. With the exception of extents flagged as @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ been allocated for the file yet. * FIEMAP_EXTENT_DELALLOC - This will also set FIEMAP_EXTENT_UNKNOWN. -Delayed allocation - while there is data for this extent, it's +Delayed allocation - while there is data for this extent, its physical location has not been allocated yet. * FIEMAP_EXTENT_ENCODED @@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ Data is located within a meta data block. Data is packed into a block with data from other files. * FIEMAP_EXTENT_UNWRITTEN -Unwritten extent - the extent is allocated but it's data has not been +Unwritten extent - the extent is allocated but its data has not been initialized. This indicates the extent's data will be all zero if read through the filesystem but the contents are undefined if read directly from the device. @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ VFS -> File System Implementation File systems wishing to support fiemap must implement a ->fiemap callback on their inode_operations structure. The fs ->fiemap call is responsible for -defining it's set of supported fiemap flags, and calling a helper function on +defining its set of supported fiemap flags, and calling a helper function on each discovered extent: struct inode_operations { diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt index 397a41adb4c3..13af4a49e7db 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ Mount options 'default_permissions' By default FUSE doesn't check file access permissions, the - filesystem is free to implement it's access policy or leave it to + filesystem is free to implement its access policy or leave it to the underlying file access mechanism (e.g. in case of network filesystems). This option enables permission checking, restricting access based on file mode. It is usually useful together with the @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ or may honor them by sending a reply to the _original_ request, with the error set to EINTR. It is also possible that there's a race between processing the -original request and it's INTERRUPT request. There are two possibilities: +original request and its INTERRUPT request. There are two possibilities: 1) The INTERRUPT request is processed before the original request is processed diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt index 5e3ab8f3beff..0b59c0200912 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Global File System ------------------ -http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/ +http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/wiki/ GFS is a cluster file system. It allows a cluster of computers to simultaneously use a block device that is shared between them (with FC, @@ -36,11 +36,11 @@ GFS2 is not on-disk compatible with previous versions of GFS, but it is pretty close. The following man pages can be found at the URL above: - fsck.gfs2 to repair a filesystem - gfs2_grow to expand a filesystem online - gfs2_jadd to add journals to a filesystem online - gfs2_tool to manipulate, examine and tune a filesystem + fsck.gfs2 to repair a filesystem + gfs2_grow to expand a filesystem online + gfs2_jadd to add journals to a filesystem online + gfs2_tool to manipulate, examine and tune a filesystem gfs2_quota to examine and change quota values in a filesystem gfs2_convert to convert a gfs filesystem to gfs2 in-place mount.gfs2 to help mount(8) mount a filesystem - mkfs.gfs2 to make a filesystem + mkfs.gfs2 to make a filesystem diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt index fa45c3baed98..74630bd504fb 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ to analyze or change OS2SYS.INI. Codepages HPFS can contain several uppercasing tables for several codepages and each -file has a pointer to codepage it's name is in. However OS/2 was created in +file has a pointer to codepage its name is in. However OS/2 was created in America where people don't care much about codepages and so multiple codepages support is quite buggy. I have Czech OS/2 working in codepage 852 on my disk. Once I booted English OS/2 working in cp 850 and I created a file on my 852 diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/logfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/logfs.txt index e64c94ba401a..bca42c22a143 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/logfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/logfs.txt @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ Levels ------ Garbage collection (GC) may fail if all data is written -indiscriminately. One requirement of GC is that data is seperated +indiscriminately. One requirement of GC is that data is separated roughly according to the distance between the tree root and the data. Effectively that means all file data is on level 0, indirect blocks are on levels 1, 2, 3 4 or 5 for 1x, 2x, 3x, 4x or 5x indirect blocks, @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ respectively. Inode file data is on level 6 for the inodes and 7-11 for indirect blocks. Each segment contains objects of a single level only. As a result, -each level requires its own seperate segment to be open for writing. +each level requires its own separate segment to be open for writing. Inode File ---------- @@ -106,9 +106,9 @@ Vim --- By cleverly predicting the life time of data, it is possible to -seperate long-living data from short-living data and thereby reduce +separate long-living data from short-living data and thereby reduce the GC overhead later. Each type of distinc life expectency (vim) can -have a seperate segment open for writing. Each (level, vim) tupel can +have a separate segment open for writing. Each (level, vim) tupel can be open just once. If an open segment with unknown vim is encountered at mount time, it is closed and ignored henceforth. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.txt index 6a53a84afc72..04884914a1c8 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.txt @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ NS*| OPENATTR | OPT | | Section 18.17 | | READ | REQ | | Section 18.22 | | READDIR | REQ | | Section 18.23 | | READLINK | OPT | | Section 18.24 | -NS | RECLAIM_COMPLETE | REQ | | Section 18.51 | + | RECLAIM_COMPLETE | REQ | | Section 18.51 | | RELEASE_LOCKOWNER | MNI | | N/A | | REMOVE | REQ | | Section 18.25 | | RENAME | REQ | | Section 18.26 | diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/rpc-cache.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/rpc-cache.txt index 8a382bea6808..ebcaaee21616 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/rpc-cache.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/rpc-cache.txt @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ failed lookup meant a definite 'no'. request/response format ----------------------- -While each cache is free to use it's own format for requests +While each cache is free to use its own format for requests and responses over channel, the following is recommended as appropriate and support routines are available to help: Each request or response record should be printable ASCII diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt index c58b9f5ba002..1f7ae144f6d8 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt @@ -80,3 +80,10 @@ user_xattr (*) Enables Extended User Attributes. nouser_xattr Disables Extended User Attributes. acl Enables POSIX Access Control Lists support. noacl (*) Disables POSIX Access Control Lists support. +resv_level=2 (*) Set how agressive allocation reservations will be. + Valid values are between 0 (reservations off) to 8 + (maximum space for reservations). +dir_resv_level= (*) By default, directory reservations will scale with file + reservations - users should rarely need to change this + value. If allocation reservations are turned off, this + option will have no effect. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index a4f30faa4f1f..9fb6cbe70bde 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ Table 1-4: Contents of the stat files (as of 2.6.30-rc7) cgtime guest time of the task children in jiffies .............................................................................. -The /proc/PID/map file containing the currently mapped memory regions and +The /proc/PID/maps file containing the currently mapped memory regions and their access permissions. The format is: @@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ address perms offset dev inode pathname 08049000-0804a000 rw-p 00001000 03:00 8312 /opt/test 0804a000-0806b000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] a7cb1000-a7cb2000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 -a7cb2000-a7eb2000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [threadstack:001ff4b4] +a7cb2000-a7eb2000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 a7eb2000-a7eb3000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 a7eb3000-a7ed5000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 a7ed5000-a8008000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 4222 /lib/libc.so.6 @@ -352,7 +352,6 @@ is not associated with a file: [stack] = the stack of the main process [vdso] = the "virtual dynamic shared object", the kernel system call handler - [threadstack:xxxxxxxx] = the stack of the thread, xxxxxxxx is the stack size or if empty, the mapping is anonymous. @@ -566,6 +565,10 @@ The default_smp_affinity mask applies to all non-active IRQs, which are the IRQs which have not yet been allocated/activated, and hence which lack a /proc/irq/[0-9]* directory. +The node file on an SMP system shows the node to which the device using the IRQ +reports itself as being attached. This hardware locality information does not +include information about any possible driver locality preference. + prof_cpu_mask specifies which CPUs are to be profiled by the system wide profiler. Default value is ffffffff (all cpus). @@ -965,7 +968,7 @@ your system and how much traffic was routed over those devices: ...] 1375103 17405 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...] 1703981 5535 0 0 0 3 0 0 -In addition, each Channel Bond interface has it's own directory. For +In addition, each Channel Bond interface has its own directory. For example, the bond0 device will have a directory called /proc/net/bond0/. It will contain information that is specific to that bond, such as the current slaves of the bond, the link status of the slaves, and how @@ -1362,7 +1365,7 @@ been accounted as having caused 1MB of write. In other words: The number of bytes which this process caused to not happen, by truncating pagecache. A task can cause "negative" IO too. If this task truncates some dirty pagecache, some IO which another task has been accounted -for (in it's write_bytes) will not be happening. We _could_ just subtract that +for (in its write_bytes) will not be happening. We _could_ just subtract that from the truncating task's write_bytes, but there is information loss in doing that. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt index f673ef0de0f7..194fb0decd2c 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt @@ -3,6 +3,6 @@ protocol used by Windows for Workgroups, Windows 95 and Windows NT. Smbfs was inspired by Samba, the program written by Andrew Tridgell that turns any Unix host into a file server for DOS or Windows clients. -Smbfs is a SMB client, but uses parts of samba for it's operation. For +Smbfs is a SMB client, but uses parts of samba for its operation. For more info on samba, including documentation, please go to http://www.samba.org/ and then on to your nearest mirror. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index 3de2f32edd90..b66858538df5 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ structure (this is the kernel-side implementation of file descriptors). The freshly allocated file structure is initialized with a pointer to the dentry and a set of file operation member functions. These are taken from the inode data. The open() file method is then -called so the specific filesystem implementation can do it's work. You +called so the specific filesystem implementation can do its work. You can see that this is another switch performed by the VFS. The file structure is placed into the file descriptor table for the process. |