linux-toradex.git/fs/nilfs2/dat.h, branch v3.2-rt9

nilfs2: use iget for all metadata files

2010-10-23T00:24:38+00:00

This makes use of iget5_locked to allocate or get inode for metadata
files to stop using own inode allocator.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi

nilfs2: separate read method of meta data files on super root block

2009-11-20T01:05:48+00:00

Will displace nilfs_mdt_read_inode_direct function with an individual
read method: nilfs_dat_read, nilfs_sufile_read, nilfs_cpfile_read.

This provides the opportunity to initialize local variables of each
metadata file after reading the inode.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi

nilfs2: separate constructor of metadata files

2009-11-20T01:05:48+00:00

This will displace nilfs_mdt_new() constructor with individual
metadata file constructors like nilfs_dat_new(), new_sufile_new(),
nilfs_cpfile_new(), and nilfs_ifile_new().

This makes it possible for each metadata file to have own
intialization code.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi

nilfs2: add update functions of virtual block address to dat

2009-09-14T09:27:15+00:00

This is a preparation for the successive cleanup ("nilfs2: allow btree
to directly call dat operations").

This adds functions bundling a few operations to change an entry of
virtual block address on the dat file.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi

nilfs2: remove individual gfp constants for each metadata file

2009-09-14T09:27:15+00:00

This gets rid of NILFS_CPFILE_GFP, NILFS_SUFILE_GFP, NILFS_DAT_GFP,
and NILFS_IFILE_GFP.  All of these constants refer to NILFS_MDT_GFP,
and can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi

nilfs2: remove nilfs_dat_abort_start and nilfs_dat_abort_free

2009-09-14T09:27:15+00:00

These functions are not called from any functions.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi

nilfs2: allow future expansion of metadata read out via get info ioctl

2009-06-10T14:41:11+00:00

Nilfs has some ioctl commands to read out metadata from meta data
files:

 - NILFS_IOCTL_GET_CPINFO for checkpoint file,
 - NILFS_IOCTL_GET_SUINFO for segment usage file, and
 - NILFS_IOCTL_GET_VINFO for Disk Address Transalation (DAT) file,
   respectively.

Every routine on these metadata files is implemented so that it allows
future expansion of on-disk format.  But, the above ioctl commands do
not support expansion even though nilfs_argv structure can handle
arbitrary size for data exchanged via ioctl.

This allows future expansion of the following structures which give
basic format of the "get information" ioctls:

 - struct nilfs_cpinfo
 - struct nilfs_suinfo
 - struct nilfs_vinfo

So, this introduces forward compatility of such ioctl commands.

In this patch, a sanity check in nilfs_ioctl_get_info() function is
changed to accept larger data structure [1], and metadata read
routines are rewritten so that they become compatible for larger
structures; the routines will just ignore the remaining fields which
the current version of nilfs doesn't know.

[1] The ioctl function already has another upper limit (PAGE_SIZE
    against a structure, which appears in nilfs_ioctl_wrap_copy
    function), and this will not cause security problem.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi

nilfs2: disk address translator

2009-04-07T15:31:14+00:00

This adds the disk address translation file (DAT) whose primary function
is to convert virtual disk block numbers to actual disk block numbers.

The virtual block numbers of NILFS are associated with checkpoint
generation numbers, and this file also provides functions to manage the
lifetime information of each virtual block number.

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