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2014-04-03nilfs2: update project's web site in nilfs2.txtRyusuke Konishi
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 <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-03nilfs2: implementation of NILFS_IOCTL_SET_SUINFO ioctlAndreas Rohner
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 <andreas.rohner@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-23nilfs2: add comments for ioctlsVyacheslav Dubeyko
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 <slava@dubeyko.com> Reviewed-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Wenliang Fan <fanwlexca@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-13nilfs2: remove resize from unsupported features listRyusuke Konishi
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 <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2010-07-23nilfs2: add nodiscard mount optionRyusuke Konishi
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 <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2010-07-23nilfs2: add barrier mount optionRyusuke Konishi
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 <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2010-05-10nilfs2: change default of 'errors' mount option to 'remount-ro' modeRyusuke Konishi
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 <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2010-02-13nilfs2: issue discard request after cleaning segmentsJiro SEKIBA
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 <jir@unicus.jp> Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2010-01-02nilfs2: update mailing list addressRyusuke Konishi
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 <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2009-11-20nilfs2: add norecovery mount optionRyusuke Konishi
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 <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
2009-11-20nilfs2: Using nobarrier option instead of barrier=offJiro SEKIBA
Since most of fs using nofoobar style option, modified barrier=off option as nobarrier. Signed-off-by: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp> Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2009-06-10nilfs2: modify list of unsupported features in caveatsRyusuke Konishi
This clarifies missing features of nilfs as a regular filesystem. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2009-04-07nilfs2: clean up sketch fileRyusuke Konishi
The sketch file is a file to mark checkpoints with user data. It was experimentally introduced in the original implementation, and now obsolete. The file was handled differently with regular files; the file size got truncated when a checkpoint was created. This stops the special treatment and will treat it as a regular file. Most users are not affected because mkfs.nilfs2 no longer makes this file. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07nilfs2: add documentRyusuke Konishi
This adds a document describing the features, mount options, userland tools, usage, disk format, and related URLs for the nilfs2 file system. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>