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Linus Torvalds
3fe03debfc Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull vfs fixes from Al Viro:
 "atomic_open-related fixes (Miklos' series, with EEXIST-related parts
  replaced with fix in fs/namei.c:atomic_open() instead of messing with
  the instances) + race fix in autofs + leak on failure exit in 9p"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  9p: don't forget to destroy inode cache if fscache registration fails
  atomic_open: take care of EEXIST in no-open case with O_CREAT|O_EXCL in fs/namei.c
  vfs: don't set FILE_CREATED before calling ->atomic_open()
  nfs: set FILE_CREATED
  gfs2: set FILE_CREATED
  cifs: fix filp leak in cifs_atomic_open()
  vfs: improve i_op->atomic_open() documentation
  autofs4: close the races around autofs4_notify_daemon()
2013-09-18 19:22:22 -05:00
Miklos Szeredi
0854d450e2 vfs: improve i_op->atomic_open() documentation
Fix documentation of ->atomic_open() and related functions: finish_open()
and finish_no_open().  Also add details that seem to be unclear and a
source of bugs (some of which are fixed in the following series).

Cc-ing maintainers of all filesystems implementing ->atomic_open().

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Cc: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>
Cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-09-16 19:17:24 -04:00
Björn Jacke
81b66220a9 cifs: update cifs.txt and remove some outdated infos
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Björn JACKE <bj@sernet.de>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
2013-09-13 16:29:58 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
26935fb06e Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull vfs pile 4 from Al Viro:
 "list_lru pile, mostly"

This came out of Andrew's pile, Al ended up doing the merge work so that
Andrew didn't have to.

Additionally, a few fixes.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (42 commits)
  super: fix for destroy lrus
  list_lru: dynamically adjust node arrays
  shrinker: Kill old ->shrink API.
  shrinker: convert remaining shrinkers to count/scan API
  staging/lustre/libcfs: cleanup linux-mem.h
  staging/lustre/ptlrpc: convert to new shrinker API
  staging/lustre/obdclass: convert lu_object shrinker to count/scan API
  staging/lustre/ldlm: convert to shrinkers to count/scan API
  hugepage: convert huge zero page shrinker to new shrinker API
  i915: bail out earlier when shrinker cannot acquire mutex
  drivers: convert shrinkers to new count/scan API
  fs: convert fs shrinkers to new scan/count API
  xfs: fix dquot isolation hang
  xfs-convert-dquot-cache-lru-to-list_lru-fix
  xfs: convert dquot cache lru to list_lru
  xfs: rework buffer dispose list tracking
  xfs-convert-buftarg-lru-to-generic-code-fix
  xfs: convert buftarg LRU to generic code
  fs: convert inode and dentry shrinking to be node aware
  vmscan: per-node deferred work
  ...
2013-09-12 15:01:38 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
7b7a2f0a31 Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6
Pull CIFS fixes from Steve French:
 "CIFS update including case insensitive file name matching improvements
  for UTF-8 to Unicode, various small cifs fixes, SMB2/SMB3 leasing
  improvements, support for following SMB2 symlinks, SMB3 packet signing
  improvements"

* 'for-next' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6: (25 commits)
  CIFS: Respect epoch value from create lease context v2
  CIFS: Add create lease v2 context for SMB3
  CIFS: Move parsing lease buffer to ops struct
  CIFS: Move creating lease buffer to ops struct
  CIFS: Store lease state itself rather than a mapped oplock value
  CIFS: Replace clientCanCache* bools with an integer
  [CIFS] quiet sparse compile warning
  cifs: Start using per session key for smb2/3 for signature generation
  cifs: Add a variable specific to NTLMSSP for key exchange.
  cifs: Process post session setup code in respective dialect functions.
  CIFS: convert to use le32_add_cpu()
  CIFS: Fix missing lease break
  CIFS: Fix a memory leak when a lease break comes
  cifs: add winucase_convert.pl to Documentation/ directory
  cifs: convert case-insensitive dentry ops to use new case conversion routines
  cifs: add new case-insensitive conversion routines that are based on wchar_t's
  [CIFS] Add Scott to list of cifs contributors
  cifs: Move and expand MAX_SERVER_SIZE definition
  cifs: Expand max share name length to 256
  cifs: Move string length definitions to uapi
  ...
2013-09-12 07:41:12 -07:00
Rob Landley
6e19eded36 initmpfs: use initramfs if rootfstype= or root= specified
Command line option rootfstype=ramfs to obtain old initramfs behavior, and
use ramfs instead of tmpfs for stub when root= defined (for cosmetic
reasons).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-11 15:59:38 -07:00
Minto Joseph
4649602265 Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: fix mistake in the description of Committed_AS
Fix mistake in the description of Committed_AS in kernel documentation.

Signed-off-by: Minto Joseph <mvaliyav@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-11 15:59:03 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
4aa32895c3 fs: remove vfs_follow_link
For a long time no filesystem has been using vfs_follow_link, and as seen
by recent filesystem submissions any new use is accidental as well.

Remove vfs_follow_link, document the replacement in
Documentation/filesystems/porting and also rename __vfs_follow_link
to match its only caller better.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-09-10 17:06:45 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
6cccc7d301 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client
Pull ceph updates from Sage Weil:
 "This includes both the first pile of Ceph patches (which I sent to
  torvalds@vger, sigh) and a few new patches that add support for
  fscache for Ceph.  That includes a few fscache core fixes that David
  Howells asked go through the Ceph tree.  (Thanks go to Milosz Tanski
  for putting this feature together)

  This first batch of patches (included here) had (has) several
  important RBD bug fixes, hole punch support, several different
  cleanups in the page cache interactions, improvements in the truncate
  code (new truncate mutex to avoid shenanigans with i_mutex), and a
  series of fixes in the synchronous striping read/write code.

  On top of that is a random collection of small fixes all across the
  tree (error code checks and error path cleanup, obsolete wq flags,
  etc)"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client: (43 commits)
  ceph: use d_invalidate() to invalidate aliases
  ceph: remove ceph_lookup_inode()
  ceph: trivial buildbot warnings fix
  ceph: Do not do invalidate if the filesystem is mounted nofsc
  ceph: page still marked private_2
  ceph: ceph_readpage_to_fscache didn't check if marked
  ceph: clean PgPrivate2 on returning from readpages
  ceph: use fscache as a local presisent cache
  fscache: Netfs function for cleanup post readpages
  FS-Cache: Fix heading in documentation
  CacheFiles: Implement interface to check cache consistency
  FS-Cache: Add interface to check consistency of a cached object
  rbd: fix null dereference in dout
  rbd: fix buffer size for writes to images with snapshots
  libceph: use pg_num_mask instead of pgp_num_mask for pg.seed calc
  rbd: fix I/O error propagation for reads
  ceph: use vfs __set_page_dirty_nobuffers interface instead of doing it inside filesystem
  ceph: allow sync_read/write return partial successed size of read/write.
  ceph: fix bugs about handling short-read for sync read mode.
  ceph: remove useless variable revoked_rdcache
  ...
2013-09-09 09:13:22 -07:00
Jeff Layton
d49ffb0e48 cifs: add winucase_convert.pl to Documentation/ directory
Add the script used to generate the case-conversion tables to the
Documentation/ directory, in case we ever need to update or regenerate
these tables in the future.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
2013-09-08 14:38:11 -05:00
Steve French
4adf53a9e0 [CIFS] Add Scott to list of cifs contributors
Signed-off-by: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
2013-09-08 14:35:22 -05:00
Jeff Layton
30706a5454 cifs: create a new Documentation/ directory and move docfiles into it
Currently, we have a number of documentation files that live under
fs/cifs/. Generally, these don't get picked up by distro packagers,
since they're in a non-standard location. Move them to a new spot
under Documentation/ instead.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
2013-09-08 14:24:10 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
2e515bf096 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
Pull trivial tree from Jiri Kosina:
 "The usual trivial updates all over the tree -- mostly typo fixes and
  documentation updates"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (52 commits)
  doc: Documentation/cputopology.txt fix typo
  treewide: Convert retrun typos to return
  Fix comment typo for init_cma_reserved_pageblock
  Documentation/trace: Correcting and extending tracepoint documentation
  mm/hotplug: fix a typo in Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt
  power: Documentation: Update s2ram link
  doc: fix a typo in Documentation/00-INDEX
  Documentation/printk-formats.txt: No casts needed for u64/s64
  doc: Fix typo "is is" in Documentations
  treewide: Fix printks with 0x%#
  zram: doc fixes
  Documentation/kmemcheck: update kmemcheck documentation
  doc: documentation/hwspinlock.txt fix typo
  PM / Hibernate: add section for resume options
  doc: filesystems : Fix typo in Documentations/filesystems
  scsi/megaraid fixed several typos in comments
  ppc: init_32: Fix error typo "CONFIG_START_KERNEL"
  treewide: Add __GFP_NOWARN to k.alloc calls with v.alloc fallbacks
  page_isolation: Fix a comment typo in test_pages_isolated()
  doc: fix a typo about irq affinity
  ...
2013-09-06 09:36:28 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ec0ad73080 Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs
Pull ext3, reiserfs, udf & isofs fixes from Jan Kara:
 "The contains a bunch of ext3 cleanups and minor improvements, major
  reiserfs locking changes which should hopefully fix deadlocks
  introduced by BKL removal, and udf/isofs changes to refuse mounting fs
  rw instead of mounting it ro automatically which makes eject button
  work as expected for all media (see the changelog for why userspace
  should be ok with this change)"

* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs:
  jbd: use a single printk for jbd_debug()
  reiserfs: locking, release lock around quota operations
  reiserfs: locking, handle nested locks properly
  reiserfs: locking, push write lock out of xattr code
  jbd: relocate assert after state lock in journal_commit_transaction()
  udf: Refuse RW mount of the filesystem instead of making it RO
  udf: Standardize return values in mount sequence
  isofs: Refuse RW mount of the filesystem instead of making it RO
  ext3: allow specifying external journal by pathname mount option
  jbd: remove unneeded semicolon
2013-09-06 09:06:02 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
eb97a784f0 Merge tag 'for-f2fs-3.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs
Pull f2fs updates from Jaegeuk Kim:
 "This patch-set includes the following major enhancement patches:
   - support inline xattrs
   - add sysfs support to control GCs explicitly
   - add proc entry to show the current segment usage information
   - improve the GC/SSR performance

  The other bug fixes are as follows:
   - avoid the overflow on status calculation
   - fix some error handling routines
   - fix inconsistent xattr states after power-off-recovery
   - fix incorrect xattr node offset definition
   - fix deadlock condition in fsync
   - fix the fdatasync routine for power-off-recovery"

* tag 'for-f2fs-3.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs: (40 commits)
  f2fs: optimize gc for better performance
  f2fs: merge more bios of node block writes
  f2fs: avoid an overflow during utilization calculation
  f2fs: trigger GC when there are prefree segments
  f2fs: use strncasecmp() simplify the string comparison
  f2fs: fix omitting to update inode page
  f2fs: support the inline xattrs
  f2fs: add the truncate_xattr_node function
  f2fs: introduce __find_xattr for readability
  f2fs: reserve the xattr space dynamically
  f2fs: add flags for inline xattrs
  f2fs: fix error return code in init_f2fs_fs()
  f2fs: fix wrong BUG_ON condition
  f2fs: fix memory leak when init f2fs filesystem fail
  f2fs: fix a compound statement label error
  f2fs: avoid writing inode redundantly when creating a file
  f2fs: alloc_page() doesn't return an ERR_PTR
  f2fs: should cover i_xattr_nid with its xattr node page lock
  f2fs: check the free space first in new_node_page
  f2fs: clean up the needless end 'return' of void function
  ...
2013-09-06 09:04:34 -07:00
Milosz Tanski
5a6f282a20 fscache: Netfs function for cleanup post readpages
Currently the fscache code expect the netfs to call fscache_readpages_or_alloc
inside the aops readpages callback.  It marks all the pages in the list
provided by readahead with PG_private_2.  In the cases that the netfs fails to
read all the pages (which is legal) it ends up returning to the readahead and
triggering a BUG.  This happens because the page list still contains marked
pages.

This patch implements a simple fscache_readpages_cancel function that the netfs
should call before returning from readpages.  It will revoke the pages from the
underlying cache backend and unmark them.

The problem was originally worked out in the Ceph devel tree, but it also
occurs in CIFS.  It appears that NFS, AFS and 9P are okay as read_cache_pages()
will clean up the unprocessed pages in the case of an error.

This can be used to address the following oops:

[12410647.597278] BUG: Bad page state in process petabucket  pfn:3d504e
[12410647.597292] page:ffffea000f541380 count:0 mapcount:0 mapping:
	(null) index:0x0
[12410647.597298] page flags: 0x200000000001000(private_2)

...

[12410647.597334] Call Trace:
[12410647.597345]  [<ffffffff815523f2>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
[12410647.597356]  [<ffffffff8111def7>] bad_page+0xc7/0x120
[12410647.597359]  [<ffffffff8111e49e>] free_pages_prepare+0x10e/0x120
[12410647.597361]  [<ffffffff8111fc80>] free_hot_cold_page+0x40/0x170
[12410647.597363]  [<ffffffff81123507>] __put_single_page+0x27/0x30
[12410647.597365]  [<ffffffff81123df5>] put_page+0x25/0x40
[12410647.597376]  [<ffffffffa02bdcf9>] ceph_readpages+0x2e9/0x6e0 [ceph]
[12410647.597379]  [<ffffffff81122a8f>] __do_page_cache_readahead+0x1af/0x260
[12410647.597382]  [<ffffffff81122ea1>] ra_submit+0x21/0x30
[12410647.597384]  [<ffffffff81118f64>] filemap_fault+0x254/0x490
[12410647.597387]  [<ffffffff8113a74f>] __do_fault+0x6f/0x4e0
[12410647.597391]  [<ffffffff810125bd>] ? __switch_to+0x16d/0x4a0
[12410647.597395]  [<ffffffff810865ba>] ? finish_task_switch+0x5a/0xc0
[12410647.597398]  [<ffffffff8113d856>] handle_pte_fault+0xf6/0x930
[12410647.597401]  [<ffffffff81008c33>] ? pte_mfn_to_pfn+0x93/0x110
[12410647.597403]  [<ffffffff81008cce>] ? xen_pmd_val+0xe/0x10
[12410647.597405]  [<ffffffff81005469>] ? __raw_callee_save_xen_pmd_val+0x11/0x1e
[12410647.597407]  [<ffffffff8113f361>] handle_mm_fault+0x251/0x370
[12410647.597411]  [<ffffffff812b0ac4>] ? call_rwsem_down_read_failed+0x14/0x30
[12410647.597414]  [<ffffffff8155bffa>] __do_page_fault+0x1aa/0x550
[12410647.597418]  [<ffffffff8108011d>] ? up_write+0x1d/0x20
[12410647.597422]  [<ffffffff8113141c>] ? vm_mmap_pgoff+0xbc/0xe0
[12410647.597425]  [<ffffffff81143bb8>] ? SyS_mmap_pgoff+0xd8/0x240
[12410647.597427]  [<ffffffff8155c3ae>] do_page_fault+0xe/0x10
[12410647.597431]  [<ffffffff81558818>] page_fault+0x28/0x30

Signed-off-by: Milosz Tanski <milosz@adfin.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2013-09-06 09:17:30 +01:00
David Howells
696f69b6b0 FS-Cache: Fix heading in documentation
Fix a heading in the documentation to make it consistent with the contents
list.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2013-09-06 09:17:30 +01:00
David Howells
da9803bc88 FS-Cache: Add interface to check consistency of a cached object
Extend the fscache netfs API so that the netfs can ask as to whether a cache
object is up to date with respect to its corresponding netfs object:

	int fscache_check_consistency(struct fscache_cookie *cookie)

This will call back to the netfs to check whether the auxiliary data associated
with a cookie is correct.  It returns 0 if it is and -ESTALE if it isn't; it
may also return -ENOMEM and -ERESTARTSYS.

The backends now have to implement a mandatory operation pointer:

	int (*check_consistency)(struct fscache_object *object)

that corresponds to the above API call.  FS-Cache takes care of pinning the
object and the cookie in memory and managing this call with respect to the
object state.

Original-author: Hongyi Jia <jiayisuse@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Hongyi Jia <jiayisuse@gmail.com>
cc: Milosz Tanski <milosz@adfin.com>
2013-09-06 09:17:30 +01:00
Eric Sandeen
ad4eec6135 ext4: allow specifying external journal by pathname mount option
It's always been a hassle that if an external journal's
device number changes, the filesystem won't mount.
And since boot-time enumeration can change, device number
changes aren't unusual.

The current mechanism to update the journal location is by
passing in a mount option w/ a new devnum, but that's a hassle;
it's a manual approach, fixing things after the fact.

Adding a mount option, "-o journal_path=/dev/$DEVICE" would
help, since then we can do i.e.

# mount -o journal_path=/dev/disk/by-label/$JOURNAL_LABEL ...

and it'll mount even if the devnum has changed, as shown here:

# losetup /dev/loop0 journalfile
# mke2fs -L mylabel-journal -O journal_dev /dev/loop0 
# mkfs.ext4 -L mylabel -J device=/dev/loop0 /dev/sdb1

Change the journal device number:

# losetup -d /dev/loop0
# losetup /dev/loop1 journalfile 

And today it will fail:

# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/test
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

# dmesg | tail -n 1
[17343.240702] EXT4-fs (sdb1): error: couldn't read superblock of external journal

But with this new mount option, we can specify the new path:

# mount -o journal_path=/dev/loop1 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/test
#

(which does update the encoded device number, incidentally):

# umount /dev/sdb1
# dumpe2fs -h /dev/sdb1 | grep "Journal device"
dumpe2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
Journal device:	          0x0701

But best of all we can just always mount by journal-path, and
it'll always work:

# mount -o journal_path=/dev/disk/by-label/mylabel-journal /dev/sdb1 /mnt/test
#

So the journal_path option can be specified in fstab, and as long as
the disk is available somewhere, and findable by label (or by UUID),
we can mount.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
2013-08-28 19:05:07 -04:00
Masanari Iida
9ed354b732 doc: filesystems : Fix typo in Documentations/filesystems
Correct spelling typo in Documentations/filesystems.

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2013-08-20 13:45:56 +02:00
Namjae Jeon
d2dc095f42 f2fs: add sysfs entries to select the gc policy
Add sysfs entry gc_idle to control the gc policy. Where
gc_idle = 1 corresponds to selecting a cost benefit approach,
while gc_idle = 2 corresponds to selecting a greedy approach
to garbage collection. The selection is mutually exclusive one
approach will work at any point. If gc_idle = 0, then this
option is disabled.

Cc: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Pankaj Kumar <pankaj.km@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
[Jaegeuk Kim: change the select_gc_type() flow slightly]
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2013-08-06 22:00:18 +09:00
Namjae Jeon
b59d0bae6c f2fs: add sysfs support for controlling the gc_thread
Add sysfs entries to control the timing parameters for
f2fs gc thread.

Various Sysfs options introduced are:
gc_min_sleep_time: Min Sleep time for GC in ms
gc_max_sleep_time: Max Sleep time for GC in ms
gc_no_gc_sleep_time: Default Sleep time for GC in ms

Cc: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Pankaj Kumar <pankaj.km@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
[Jaegeuk Kim: fix an umount bug and some minor changes]
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2013-08-06 21:53:34 +09:00
Eric Sandeen
cf7eff4666 ext3: allow specifying external journal by pathname mount option
It's always been a hassle that if an external journal's
device number changes, the filesystem won't mount.
And since boot-time enumeration can change, device number
changes aren't unusual.

The current mechanism to update the journal location is by
passing in a mount option w/ a new devnum, but that's a hassle;
it's a manual approach, fixing things after the fact.

Adding a mount option, "-o journal_path=/dev/$DEVICE" would
help, since then we can do i.e.

# mount -o journal_path=/dev/disk/by-label/$JOURNAL_LABEL ...

and it'll mount even if the devnum has changed, as shown here:

# losetup /dev/loop0 journalfile
# mke2fs -L mylabel-journal -O journal_dev /dev/loop0
# mkfs.ext3 -L mylabel -J device=/dev/loop0 /dev/sdb1

Change the journal device number:

# losetup -d /dev/loop0
# losetup /dev/loop1 journalfile

And today it will fail:

# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/test
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

# dmesg | tail -n 1
[17343.240702] EXT3-fs (sdb1): error: couldn't read superblock of external journal

But with this new mount option, we can specify the new path:

# mount -o journal_path=/dev/loop1 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/test
#

(which does update the encoded device number, incidentally):

# umount /dev/sdb1
# dumpe2fs -h /dev/sdb1 | grep "Journal device"
dumpe2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
Journal device:	          0x0701

But best of all we can just always mount by journal-path, and
it'll always work:

# mount -o journal_path=/dev/disk/by-label/mylabel-journal /dev/sdb1 /mnt/test
#

So the journal_path option can be specified in fstab, and as long as
the disk is available somewhere, and findable by label (or by UUID),
we can mount.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2013-07-31 22:11:15 +02:00
Changman Lee
d51a7fba25 f2fs: add description for fsck.f2fs and dump.f2fs
This patch adds some description on fsck.f2fs and dump.f2fs which is
recently merged into f2fs-tools.

Signed-off-by: Changman Lee <cm224.lee@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
2013-07-30 15:17:02 +09:00
Masanari Iida
c9f3f2d8b3 doc: Fix typo in doucmentations
Correct typo (double words) in documentations.

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2013-07-25 12:34:15 +02:00