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authorLachlan McIlroy <lachlan@redback.melbourne.sgi.com>2008-11-27 23:23:52 -0500
committerLachlan McIlroy <lachlan@redback.melbourne.sgi.com>2008-11-27 23:23:52 -0500
commitb5a20aa2657063cbf3b47fc700603180de4bb554 (patch)
tree9419fb851cda53a7f1fd67a3697bdf8550df19e4 /Documentation/filesystems
parentcc09c0dc57de7f7d2ed89d480b5653e5f6a32f2c (diff)
parented313489badef16d700f5a3be50e8fd8f8294bc8 (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt32
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/xip.txt9
2 files changed, 35 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
index bbac4f1d9056..3a5ddc96901a 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,12 @@ if you want to format from within Linux.
8 8
9VFAT MOUNT OPTIONS 9VFAT MOUNT OPTIONS
10---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10----------------------------------------------------------------------
11uid=### -- Set the owner of all files on this filesystem.
12 The default is the uid of current process.
13
14gid=### -- Set the group of all files on this filesystem.
15 The default is the gid of current process.
16
11umask=### -- The permission mask (for files and directories, see umask(1)). 17umask=### -- The permission mask (for files and directories, see umask(1)).
12 The default is the umask of current process. 18 The default is the umask of current process.
13 19
@@ -36,7 +42,7 @@ codepage=### -- Sets the codepage number for converting to shortname
36 characters on FAT filesystem. 42 characters on FAT filesystem.
37 By default, FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE setting is used. 43 By default, FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE setting is used.
38 44
39iocharset=name -- Character set to use for converting between the 45iocharset=<name> -- Character set to use for converting between the
40 encoding is used for user visible filename and 16 bit 46 encoding is used for user visible filename and 16 bit
41 Unicode characters. Long filenames are stored on disk 47 Unicode characters. Long filenames are stored on disk
42 in Unicode format, but Unix for the most part doesn't 48 in Unicode format, but Unix for the most part doesn't
@@ -86,6 +92,8 @@ check=s|r|n -- Case sensitivity checking setting.
86 r: relaxed, case insensitive 92 r: relaxed, case insensitive
87 n: normal, default setting, currently case insensitive 93 n: normal, default setting, currently case insensitive
88 94
95nocase -- This was deprecated for vfat. Use shortname=win95 instead.
96
89shortname=lower|win95|winnt|mixed 97shortname=lower|win95|winnt|mixed
90 -- Shortname display/create setting. 98 -- Shortname display/create setting.
91 lower: convert to lowercase for display, 99 lower: convert to lowercase for display,
@@ -99,11 +107,31 @@ shortname=lower|win95|winnt|mixed
99tz=UTC -- Interpret timestamps as UTC rather than local time. 107tz=UTC -- Interpret timestamps as UTC rather than local time.
100 This option disables the conversion of timestamps 108 This option disables the conversion of timestamps
101 between local time (as used by Windows on FAT) and UTC 109 between local time (as used by Windows on FAT) and UTC
102 (which Linux uses internally). This is particuluarly 110 (which Linux uses internally). This is particularly
103 useful when mounting devices (like digital cameras) 111 useful when mounting devices (like digital cameras)
104 that are set to UTC in order to avoid the pitfalls of 112 that are set to UTC in order to avoid the pitfalls of
105 local time. 113 local time.
106 114
115showexec -- If set, the execute permission bits of the file will be
116 allowed only if the extension part of the name is .EXE,
117 .COM, or .BAT. Not set by default.
118
119debug -- Can be set, but unused by the current implementation.
120
121sys_immutable -- If set, ATTR_SYS attribute on FAT is handled as
122 IMMUTABLE flag on Linux. Not set by default.
123
124flush -- If set, the filesystem will try to flush to disk more
125 early than normal. Not set by default.
126
127rodir -- FAT has the ATTR_RO (read-only) attribute. But on Windows,
128 the ATTR_RO of the directory will be just ignored actually,
129 and is used by only applications as flag. E.g. it's setted
130 for the customized folder.
131
132 If you want to use ATTR_RO as read-only flag even for
133 the directory, set this option.
134
107<bool>: 0,1,yes,no,true,false 135<bool>: 0,1,yes,no,true,false
108 136
109TODO 137TODO
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/xip.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/xip.txt
index 3cc4010521a0..0466ee569278 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/xip.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/xip.txt
@@ -39,10 +39,11 @@ The block device operation is optional, these block devices support it as of
39today: 39today:
40- dcssblk: s390 dcss block device driver 40- dcssblk: s390 dcss block device driver
41 41
42An address space operation named get_xip_page is used to retrieve reference 42An address space operation named get_xip_mem is used to retrieve references
43to a struct page. To address the target page, a reference to an address_space, 43to a page frame number and a kernel address. To obtain these values a reference
44and a sector number is provided. A 3rd argument indicates whether the 44to an address_space is provided. This function assigns values to the kmem and
45function should allocate blocks if needed. 45pfn parameters. The third argument indicates whether the function should allocate
46blocks if needed.
46 47
47This address space operation is mutually exclusive with readpage&writepage that 48This address space operation is mutually exclusive with readpage&writepage that
48do page cache read/write operations. 49do page cache read/write operations.