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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-06-11 13:36:12 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-06-11 13:36:12 -0400
commit0a33f80a8373eca7f4bea3961d1346c3815fa5ed (patch)
tree16b0c0364340416f1e27bebdd4042ffe0e6fef8f /Documentation/filesystems
parentc29f5ec022451546be1e0b24c330a0368e63e4a7 (diff)
parent003dec8913d6bebb4ecc989ec04a235cf38f5ea9 (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw: (25 commits) GFS2: Merge gfs2_get_sb into gfs2_get_sb_meta GFS2: Fix cache coherency between truncate and O_DIRECT read GFS2: Fix locking issue mounting gfs2meta fs GFS2: Remove unused variable GFS2: smbd proccess hangs with flock() call. GFS2: Remove args subdir from gfs2 sysfs files GFS2: Remove lockstruct subdir from gfs2 sysfs files GFS2: Move gfs2_unlink_ok into ops_inode.c GFS2: Move gfs2_readlinki into ops_inode.c GFS2: Move gfs2_rmdiri into ops_inode.c GFS2: Merge mount.c and ops_super.c into super.c GFS2: Clean up some file names GFS2: Be more aggressive in reclaiming unlinked inodes GFS2: Add a rgrp bitmap full flag GFS2: Improve resource group error handling GFS2: Don't warn when delete inode fails on ro filesystem GFS2: Update docs GFS2: Umount recovery race fix GFS2: Remove a couple of unused sysfs entries GFS2: Add commit= mount option ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-glocks.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt19
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-glocks.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-glocks.txt
index 4dae9a3840bf..0494f78d87e4 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-glocks.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-glocks.txt
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ go_lock | Called for the first local holder of a lock
60go_unlock | Called on the final local unlock of a lock 60go_unlock | Called on the final local unlock of a lock
61go_dump | Called to print content of object for debugfs file, or on 61go_dump | Called to print content of object for debugfs file, or on
62 | error to dump glock to the log. 62 | error to dump glock to the log.
63go_type; | The type of the glock, LM_TYPE_..... 63go_type | The type of the glock, LM_TYPE_.....
64go_min_hold_time | The minimum hold time 64go_min_hold_time | The minimum hold time
65 65
66The minimum hold time for each lock is the time after a remote lock 66The minimum hold time for each lock is the time after a remote lock
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt
index 593004b6bbab..5e3ab8f3beff 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt
@@ -11,18 +11,15 @@ their I/O so file system consistency is maintained. One of the nifty
11features of GFS is perfect consistency -- changes made to the file system 11features of GFS is perfect consistency -- changes made to the file system
12on one machine show up immediately on all other machines in the cluster. 12on one machine show up immediately on all other machines in the cluster.
13 13
14GFS uses interchangable inter-node locking mechanisms. Different lock 14GFS uses interchangable inter-node locking mechanisms, the currently
15modules can plug into GFS and each file system selects the appropriate 15supported mechanisms are:
16lock module at mount time. Lock modules include:
17 16
18 lock_nolock -- allows gfs to be used as a local file system 17 lock_nolock -- allows gfs to be used as a local file system
19 18
20 lock_dlm -- uses a distributed lock manager (dlm) for inter-node locking 19 lock_dlm -- uses a distributed lock manager (dlm) for inter-node locking
21 The dlm is found at linux/fs/dlm/ 20 The dlm is found at linux/fs/dlm/
22 21
23In addition to interfacing with an external locking manager, a gfs lock 22Lock_dlm depends on user space cluster management systems found
24module is responsible for interacting with external cluster management
25systems. Lock_dlm depends on user space cluster management systems found
26at the URL above. 23at the URL above.
27 24
28To use gfs as a local file system, no external clustering systems are 25To use gfs as a local file system, no external clustering systems are
@@ -31,13 +28,19 @@ needed, simply:
31 $ mkfs -t gfs2 -p lock_nolock -j 1 /dev/block_device 28 $ mkfs -t gfs2 -p lock_nolock -j 1 /dev/block_device
32 $ mount -t gfs2 /dev/block_device /dir 29 $ mount -t gfs2 /dev/block_device /dir
33 30
34GFS2 is not on-disk compatible with previous versions of GFS. 31If you are using Fedora, you need to install the gfs2-utils package
32and, for lock_dlm, you will also need to install the cman package
33and write a cluster.conf as per the documentation.
34
35GFS2 is not on-disk compatible with previous versions of GFS, but it
36is pretty close.
35 37
36The following man pages can be found at the URL above: 38The following man pages can be found at the URL above:
37 gfs2_fsck to repair a filesystem 39 fsck.gfs2 to repair a filesystem
38 gfs2_grow to expand a filesystem online 40 gfs2_grow to expand a filesystem online
39 gfs2_jadd to add journals to a filesystem online 41 gfs2_jadd to add journals to a filesystem online
40 gfs2_tool to manipulate, examine and tune a filesystem 42 gfs2_tool to manipulate, examine and tune a filesystem
41 gfs2_quota to examine and change quota values in a filesystem 43 gfs2_quota to examine and change quota values in a filesystem
44 gfs2_convert to convert a gfs filesystem to gfs2 in-place
42 mount.gfs2 to help mount(8) mount a filesystem 45 mount.gfs2 to help mount(8) mount a filesystem
43 mkfs.gfs2 to make a filesystem 46 mkfs.gfs2 to make a filesystem