linux-toradex.git/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt, branch v4.4.72

nilfs2: update project's web site in nilfs2.txt

2014-04-03T23:21:26+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

nilfs2: implementation of NILFS_IOCTL_SET_SUINFO ioctl

2014-04-03T23:21:25+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

nilfs2: add comments for ioctls

2014-01-24T00:37:00+00:00

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 
Reviewed-by: Ryusuke Konishi 
Cc: Wenliang Fan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

nilfs2: remove resize from unsupported features list

2011-07-13T07:08:59+00:00

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

nilfs2: add nodiscard mount option

2010-07-23T01:02:12+00:00

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

nilfs2: add barrier mount option

2010-07-23T01:02:12+00:00

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

nilfs2: change default of 'errors' mount option to 'remount-ro' mode

2010-05-10T02:32:30+00:00

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

nilfs2: issue discard request after cleaning segments

2010-02-13T03:26:02+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi

nilfs2: update mailing list address

2010-01-02T12:47:04+00:00

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

nilfs2: add norecovery mount option

2009-11-20T01:05:52+00:00

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 
Cc: Eric Sandeen