linux-toradex.git/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt, branch v4.9.48

nilfs2: move ioctl interface and disk layout to uapi separately

2016-08-02T23:35:21+00:00

The header file "include/linux/nilfs2_fs.h" is composed of parts for
ioctl and disk format, and both are intended to be shared with user
space programs.

This moves them to the uapi directory "include/uapi/linux" splitting the
file to "nilfs2_api.h" and "nilfs2_ondisk.h".  The following minor
changes are accompanied by this migration:

 - nilfs_direct_node struct in nilfs2/direct.h is converged to
   nilfs2_ondisk.h because it's an on-disk structure.
 - inline functions nilfs_rec_len_from_disk() and
   nilfs_rec_len_to_disk() are moved to nilfs2/dir.c.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1465825507-3407-4-git-send-email-konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

nilfs2: clarify permission to replicate the design

2016-05-24T00:04:14+00:00

To respond to a certain developer's request, this explicitly state that
developers can reimplement the nilfs2 design for other operating systems
to share data stored in that format.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461935747-10380-7-git-send-email-konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

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