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-rw-r--r--fs/cachefiles/cache.c8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/cache.c b/fs/cachefiles/cache.c
index 1e9c71666c6a..2b2879c5d1d2 100644
--- a/fs/cachefiles/cache.c
+++ b/fs/cachefiles/cache.c
@@ -49,7 +49,13 @@ int cachefiles_add_cache(struct cachefiles_cache *cache)
goto error_unsupported;
}
- /* check parameters */
+ /* Check features of the backing filesystem:
+ * - Directories must support looking up and directory creation
+ * - We use xattrs to store metadata
+ * - We need to be able to query the amount of space available
+ * - We want to be able to sync the filesystem when stopping the cache
+ * - We use DIO to/from pages, so the blocksize mustn't be too big.
+ */
ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;
if (d_is_negative(root) ||
!d_backing_inode(root)->i_op->lookup ||