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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ubifs.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/xfs-delayed-logging-design.txt | 7 |
5 files changed, 22 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt index 9e8811f92b8..5949766353f 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt @@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ Mount options for ADFS will be nnn. Default 0700. othmask=nnn The permission mask for ADFS 'other' permissions will be nnn. Default 0077. + ftsuffix=n When ftsuffix=0, no file type suffix will be applied. + When ftsuffix=1, a hexadecimal suffix corresponding to + the RISC OS file type will be added. Default 0. Mapping of ADFS permissions to Linux permissions ------------------------------------------------ @@ -55,3 +58,18 @@ Mapping of ADFS permissions to Linux permissions You can therefore tailor the permission translation to whatever you desire the permissions should be under Linux. + +RISC OS file type suffix +------------------------ + + RISC OS file types are stored in bits 19..8 of the file load address. + + To enable non-RISC OS systems to be used to store files without losing + file type information, a file naming convention was devised (initially + for use with NFS) such that a hexadecimal suffix of the form ,xyz + denoted the file type: e.g. BasicFile,ffb is a BASIC (0xffb) file. This + naming convention is now also used by RISC OS emulators such as RPCEmu. + + Mounting an ADFS disc with option ftsuffix=1 will cause appropriate file + type suffixes to be appended to file names read from a directory. If the + ftsuffix option is zero or omitted, no file type suffixes will be added. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt index 2d2a7b2a16b..e2b07cc9120 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt @@ -17,8 +17,7 @@ comparison, an actual rescue disk used up 3202 blocks with ext2, while with romfs, it needed 3079 blocks. To create such a file system, you'll need a user program named -genromfs. It is available via anonymous ftp on sunsite.unc.edu and -its mirrors, in the /pub/Linux/system/recovery/ directory. +genromfs. It is available on http://romfs.sourceforge.net/ As the name suggests, romfs could be also used (space-efficiently) on various read-only media, like (E)EPROM disks if someone will have the diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ubifs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ubifs.txt index 12fedb7834c..d7b13b01e98 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ubifs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ubifs.txt @@ -82,12 +82,12 @@ Mount options bulk_read read more in one go to take advantage of flash media that read faster sequentially no_bulk_read (*) do not bulk-read -no_chk_data_crc skip checking of CRCs on data nodes in order to +no_chk_data_crc (*) skip checking of CRCs on data nodes in order to improve read performance. Use this option only if the flash media is highly reliable. The effect of this option is that corruption of the contents of a file can go unnoticed. -chk_data_crc (*) do not skip checking CRCs on data nodes +chk_data_crc do not skip checking CRCs on data nodes compr=none override default compressor and set it to "none" compr=lzo override default compressor and set it to "lzo" compr=zlib override default compressor and set it to "zlib" diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index ef0714aa8e4..306f0ae8df0 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -873,7 +873,7 @@ struct dentry_operations { void (*d_iput)(struct dentry *, struct inode *); char *(*d_dname)(struct dentry *, char *, int); struct vfsmount *(*d_automount)(struct path *); - int (*d_manage)(struct dentry *, bool, bool); + int (*d_manage)(struct dentry *, bool); }; d_revalidate: called when the VFS needs to revalidate a dentry. This @@ -969,10 +969,6 @@ struct dentry_operations { mounted on it and not to check the automount flag. Any other error code will abort pathwalk completely. - If the 'mounting_here' parameter is true, then namespace_sem is being - held by the caller and the function should not initiate any mounts or - unmounts that it will then wait for. - If the 'rcu_walk' parameter is true, then the caller is doing a pathwalk in RCU-walk mode. Sleeping is not permitted in this mode, and the caller can be asked to leave it and call again by returing diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/xfs-delayed-logging-design.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/xfs-delayed-logging-design.txt index 7445bf335da..5282e3e5141 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/xfs-delayed-logging-design.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/xfs-delayed-logging-design.txt @@ -791,10 +791,3 @@ mount option. Fundamentally, there is no reason why the log manager would not be able to swap methods automatically and transparently depending on load characteristics, but this should not be necessary if delayed logging works as designed. - -Roadmap: - -2.6.39 Switch default mount option to use delayed logging - => should be roughly 12 months after initial merge - => enough time to shake out remaining problems before next round of - enterprise distro kernel rebases |