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author | Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com> | 2012-10-18 11:28:58 -0400 |
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committer | Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com> | 2012-11-02 18:21:13 -0400 |
commit | c99abb8f560798625323c7b21d5636259017825d (patch) | |
tree | a85b672a062910927af084e56fa2ab6b48b650fc /Documentation/filesystems | |
parent | cd856db69c88db438215244571957d812bdc6813 (diff) |
xfs: Update mount options documentation
Once inode64 is the default allocation mode now, kernel documentation should be
updated to match this behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt index 3fc0c31a6f5d..17187750270a 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt | |||
@@ -72,8 +72,15 @@ When mounting an XFS filesystem, the following options are accepted. | |||
72 | Indicates that XFS is allowed to create inodes at any location | 72 | Indicates that XFS is allowed to create inodes at any location |
73 | in the filesystem, including those which will result in inode | 73 | in the filesystem, including those which will result in inode |
74 | numbers occupying more than 32 bits of significance. This is | 74 | numbers occupying more than 32 bits of significance. This is |
75 | provided for backwards compatibility, but causes problems for | 75 | the default allocation option. Applications which do not handle |
76 | backup applications that cannot handle large inode numbers. | 76 | inode numbers bigger than 32 bits, should use inode32 option. |
77 | |||
78 | inode32 | ||
79 | Indicates that XFS is limited to create inodes at locations which | ||
80 | will not result in inode numbers with more than 32 bits of | ||
81 | significance. This is provided for backwards compatibility, since | ||
82 | 64 bits inode numbers might cause problems for some applications | ||
83 | that cannot handle large inode numbers. | ||
77 | 84 | ||
78 | largeio/nolargeio | 85 | largeio/nolargeio |
79 | If "nolargeio" is specified, the optimal I/O reported in | 86 | If "nolargeio" is specified, the optimal I/O reported in |