1 files changed, 21 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
index d230dd9c99b0..4a93e98b290a 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
@@ -150,12 +150,28 @@ discard       -- If set, issues discard/TRIM commands to the block
                  device when blocks are freed. This is useful for SSD devices
                  and sparse/thinly-provisoned LUNs.
 
-nfs           -- This option maintains an index (cache) of directory
-                 inodes by i_logstart which is used by the nfs-related code to
-                 improve look-ups.
+nfs=stale_rw|nostale_ro
+                Enable this only if you want to export the FAT filesystem
+                over NFS.
+
+                stale_rw: This option maintains an index (cache) of directory
+                inodes by i_logstart which is used by the nfs-related code to
+                improve look-ups. Full file operations (read/write) over NFS is
+                supported but with cache eviction at NFS server, this could
+                result in ESTALE issues.
+
+                nostale_ro: This option bases the inode number and filehandle
+                on the on-disk location of a file in the MS-DOS directory entry.
+                This ensures that ESTALE will not be returned after a file is
+                evicted from the inode cache. However, it means that operations
+                such as rename, create and unlink could cause filehandles that
+                previously pointed at one file to point at a different file,
+                potentially causing data corruption. For this reason, this
+                option also mounts the filesystem readonly.
+
+                To maintain backward compatibility, '-o nfs' is also accepted,
+                defaulting to stale_rw
 
-                 Enable this only if you want to export the FAT filesystem
-                 over NFS
 
 <bool>: 0,1,yes,no,true,false