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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt | 8 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/files.txt | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/nfs/idmapper.txt | 20 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/nfs/pnfs.txt | 54 |
4 files changed, 70 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt index 8c10bf375c7..1b7f9acbcbb 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt @@ -144,9 +144,6 @@ journal_async_commit Commit block can be written to disk without waiting mount the device. This will enable 'journal_checksum' internally. -journal=update Update the ext4 file system's journal to the current - format. - journal_dev=devnum When the external journal device's major/minor numbers have changed, this option allows the user to specify the new journal location. The journal device is @@ -356,11 +353,6 @@ nouid32 Disables 32-bit UIDs and GIDs. This is for interoperability with older kernels which only store and expect 16-bit values. -resize Allows to resize filesystem to the end of the last - existing block group, further resize has to be done - with resize2fs either online, or offline. It can be - used only with conjunction with remount. - block_validity This options allows to enables/disables the in-kernel noblock_validity facility for tracking filesystem metadata blocks within internal data structures. This allows multi- diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/files.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/files.txt index ac2facc50d2..46dfc6b038c 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/files.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/files.txt @@ -113,8 +113,8 @@ the fdtable structure - if (fd >= 0) { /* locate_fd() may have expanded fdtable, load the ptr */ fdt = files_fdtable(files); - FD_SET(fd, fdt->open_fds); - FD_CLR(fd, fdt->close_on_exec); + __set_open_fd(fd, fdt); + __clear_close_on_exec(fd, fdt); spin_unlock(&files->file_lock); ..... diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/idmapper.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/idmapper.txt index 120fd3cf7fd..fe03d10bb79 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/idmapper.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/idmapper.txt @@ -4,13 +4,21 @@ ID Mapper ========= Id mapper is used by NFS to translate user and group ids into names, and to translate user and group names into ids. Part of this translation involves -performing an upcall to userspace to request the information. Id mapper will -user request-key to perform this upcall and cache the result. The program -/usr/sbin/nfs.idmap should be called by request-key, and will perform the -translation and initialize a key with the resulting information. +performing an upcall to userspace to request the information. There are two +ways NFS could obtain this information: placing a call to /sbin/request-key +or by placing a call to the rpc.idmap daemon. + +NFS will attempt to call /sbin/request-key first. If this succeeds, the +result will be cached using the generic request-key cache. This call should +only fail if /etc/request-key.conf is not configured for the id_resolver key +type, see the "Configuring" section below if you wish to use the request-key +method. + +If the call to /sbin/request-key fails (if /etc/request-key.conf is not +configured with the id_resolver key type), then the idmapper will ask the +legacy rpc.idmap daemon for the id mapping. This result will be stored +in a custom NFS idmap cache. - NFS_USE_NEW_IDMAPPER must be selected when configuring the kernel to use this - feature. =========== Configuring diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/pnfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/pnfs.txt index 983e14abe7e..c7919c6e3be 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/pnfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/pnfs.txt @@ -53,3 +53,57 @@ lseg maintains an extra reference corresponding to the NFS_LSEG_VALID bit which holds it in the pnfs_layout_hdr's list. When the final lseg is removed from the pnfs_layout_hdr's list, the NFS_LAYOUT_DESTROYED bit is set, preventing any new lsegs from being added. + +layout drivers +-------------- + +PNFS utilizes what is called layout drivers. The STD defines 3 basic +layout types: "files" "objects" and "blocks". For each of these types +there is a layout-driver with a common function-vectors table which +are called by the nfs-client pnfs-core to implement the different layout +types. + +Files-layout-driver code is in: fs/nfs/nfs4filelayout.c && nfs4filelayoutdev.c +Objects-layout-deriver code is in: fs/nfs/objlayout/.. directory +Blocks-layout-deriver code is in: fs/nfs/blocklayout/.. directory + +objects-layout setup +-------------------- + +As part of the full STD implementation the objlayoutdriver.ko needs, at times, +to automatically login to yet undiscovered iscsi/osd devices. For this the +driver makes up-calles to a user-mode script called *osd_login* + +The path_name of the script to use is by default: + /sbin/osd_login. +This name can be overridden by the Kernel module parameter: + objlayoutdriver.osd_login_prog + +If Kernel does not find the osd_login_prog path it will zero it out +and will not attempt farther logins. An admin can then write new value +to the objlayoutdriver.osd_login_prog Kernel parameter to re-enable it. + +The /sbin/osd_login is part of the nfs-utils package, and should usually +be installed on distributions that support this Kernel version. + +The API to the login script is as follows: + Usage: $0 -u <URI> -o <OSDNAME> -s <SYSTEMID> + Options: + -u target uri e.g. iscsi://<ip>:<port> + (allways exists) + (More protocols can be defined in the future. + The client does not interpret this string it is + passed unchanged as recieved from the Server) + -o osdname of the requested target OSD + (Might be empty) + (A string which denotes the OSD name, there is a + limit of 64 chars on this string) + -s systemid of the requested target OSD + (Might be empty) + (This string, if not empty is always an hex + representation of the 20 bytes osd_system_id) + +blocks-layout setup +------------------- + +TODO: Document the setup needs of the blocks layout driver |