To respond to a certain developer's request, this explicitly state that
developers can reimplement the nilfs2 design for other operating systems
to share data stored in that format.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461935747-10380-7-git-send-email-konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Project's web site was moved to nilfs.sourceforge.net from
www.nilfs.org. This updates the site information in
Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt with the new location.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
With this ioctl the segment usage entries in the SUFILE can be updated
from userspace.
This is useful, because it allows the userspace GC to modify and update
segment usage entries for specific segments, which enables it to avoid
unnecessary write operations.
If a segment needs to be cleaned, but there is no or very little
reclaimable space in it, the cleaning operation basically degrades to a
useless moving operation. In the end the only thing that changes is the
location of the data and a timestamp in the segment usage information.
With this ioctl the GC can skip the cleaning and update the segment
usage entries directly instead.
This is basically a shortcut to cleaning the segment. It is still
necessary to read the segment summary information, but the writing of
the live blocks can be skipped if it's not worth it.
[konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp: add description of NILFS_IOCTL_SET_SUINFO ioctl]
Signed-off-by: Andreas Rohner <andreas.rohner@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add comments for ioctls in fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c file and describe NILFS2
specific ioctls in Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt.
Signed-off-by: Vyacheslav Dubeyko <slava@dubeyko.com>
Reviewed-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Wenliang Fan <fanwlexca@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Resize feature was supported by the commit 4e33f9eab0 but it was not
reflected to the list of unsupported features in nilfs2.txt file.
This updates the list to fix discrepancy.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Nilfs has "discard" mount option which issues discard/TRIM commands to
underlying block device, but it lacks a complementary option and has
no way to disable the feature through remount.
This adds "nodiscard" option to resolve this imbalance.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Nilfs enables write barriers by default and has "nobarrier" mount
option to disable this feature. But it lacks the complementary option
and has no way to re-enable the feature on remount.
This adds "barrier" option to resolve this imbalance.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Like ext3, nilfs has 'errors' mount option to allow specifying desired
behavior on severe errors.
Currently, the default action is 'errors=continue' and has potential
to advance filesystem corruption for severe errors.
This will change the action to 'errors=remount-ro' to avoid the issue.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
This adds a function to send discard requests for given array of
segment numbers, and calls the function when garbage collection
succeeded.
Signed-off-by: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
This replaces the list address for nilfs discussion to linux-nilfs at
vger.kernel.org from users at nilfs.org.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
This adds "norecovery" mount option which disables temporal write
access to read-only mounts or snapshots during mount/recovery.
Without this option, write access will be even performed for those
types of mounts; the temporal write access is needed to mount root
file system read-only after an unclean shutdown.
This option will be helpful when user wants to prevent any write
access to the device.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Since most of fs using nofoobar style option,
modified barrier=off option as nobarrier.
Signed-off-by: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
The sketch file is a file to mark checkpoints with user data. It was
experimentally introduced in the original implementation, and now
obsolete. The file was handled differently with regular files; the file
size got truncated when a checkpoint was created.
This stops the special treatment and will treat it as a regular file.
Most users are not affected because mkfs.nilfs2 no longer makes this file.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This adds a document describing the features, mount options, userland
tools, usage, disk format, and related URLs for the nilfs2 file system.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
