[PATCH] OCFS2: The Second Oracle Cluster Filesystem

The OCFS2 file system module.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Kurt Hackel <kurt.hackel@oracle.com>

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+OCFS2 filesystem
+==================
+OCFS2 is a general purpose extent based shared disk cluster file
+system with many similarities to ext3. It supports 64 bit inode
+numbers, and has automatically extending metadata groups which may
+also make it attractive for non-clustered use.
+
+You'll want to install the ocfs2-tools package in order to at least
+get "mount.ocfs2" and "ocfs2_hb_ctl".
+
+Project web page:    http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2
+Tools web page:      http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2-tools
+OCFS2 mailing lists: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/mailman/
+
+All code copyright 2005 Oracle except when otherwise noted.
+
+CREDITS:
+Lots of code taken from ext3 and other projects.
+
+Authors in alphabetical order:
+Joel Becker   <joel.becker@oracle.com>
+Zach Brown    <zach.brown@oracle.com>
+Mark Fasheh   <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
+Kurt Hackel   <kurt.hackel@oracle.com>
+Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
+Manish Singh  <manish.singh@oracle.com>
+
+Caveats
+=======
+Features which OCFS2 does not support yet:
+        - sparse files
+        - extended attributes
+        - shared writeable mmap
+        - loopback is supported, but data written will not
+          be cluster coherent.
+        - quotas
+        - cluster aware flock
+        - Directory change notification (F_NOTIFY)
+        - Distributed Caching (F_SETLEASE/F_GETLEASE/break_lease)
+        - POSIX ACLs
+        - readpages / writepages (not user visible)
+
+Mount options
+=============
+
+OCFS2 supports the following mount options:
+(*) == default
+
+barrier=1               This enables/disables barriers. barrier=0 disables it,
+                        barrier=1 enables it.
+errors=remount-ro(*)    Remount the filesystem read-only on an error.
+errors=panic            Panic and halt the machine if an error occurs.
+intr            (*)     Allow signals to interrupt cluster operations.
+nointr                  Do not allow signals to interrupt cluster
+                        operations.