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2011-03-31Fix common misspellingsLucas De Marchi
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2010-10-11ocfs2: Add a mount option "coherency=*" to handle cluster coherency for ↵Tristan Ye
O_DIRECT writes. Currently, the default behavior of O_DIRECT writes was allowing concurrent writing among nodes to the same file, with no cluster coherency guaranteed (no EX lock held). This can leave stale data in the cache for buffered reads on other nodes. The new mount option introduce a chance to choose two different behaviors for O_DIRECT writes: * coherency=full, as the default value, will disallow concurrent O_DIRECT writes by taking EX locks. * coherency=buffered, allow concurrent O_DIRECT writes without EX lock among nodes, which gains high performance at risk of getting stale data on other nodes. Signed-off-by: Tristan Ye <tristan.ye@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
2010-05-05ocfs2: Add dir_resv_level mount optionMark Fasheh
The default behavior for directory reservations stays the same, but we add a mount option so people can tweak the size of directory reservations according to their workloads. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
2010-05-05ocfs2: change default reservation window sizesMark Fasheh
The default reservation size of 4 (32-bit windows) is a bit too ambitious. Scale it back to 16 bits (resv_level=2). I have been testing various sizes on a 4-node cluster which runs a mixed workload that is heavily threaded. With a 256MB local alloc, I get *roughly* the following levels of average file fragmentation: resv_level=0 70% resv_level=1 21% resv_level=2 23% resv_level=3 24% resv_level=4 60% resv_level=5 did not test resv_level=6 60% resv_level=2 seemed like a good compromise between not letting windows be too small, but not so big that heavier workloads will immediately suffer without tuning. This patch also change the behavior of directory reservations - they now track file reservations. The previous compromise of giving directory windows only 8 bits wound up fragmenting more at some window sizes because file allocations had smaller unused windows to poach from. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
2010-05-05ocfs2: allocation reservationsMark Fasheh
This patch improves Ocfs2 allocation policy by allowing an inode to reserve a portion of the local alloc bitmap for itself. The reserved portion (allocation window) is advisory in that other allocation windows might steal it if the local alloc bitmap becomes full. Otherwise, the reservations are honored and guaranteed to be free. When the local alloc window is moved to a different portion of the bitmap, existing reservations are discarded. Reservation windows are represented internally by a red-black tree. Within that tree, each node represents the reservation window of one inode. An LRU of active reservations is also maintained. When new data is written, we allocate it from the inodes window. When all bits in a window are exhausted, we allocate a new one as close to the previous one as possible. Should we not find free space, an existing reservation is pulled off the LRU and cannibalized. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
2009-11-13ocfs2: Refresh documentationSunil Mushran
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
2009-01-05ocfs2: add mount option and Kconfig option for aclTiger Yang
This patch adds the Kconfig option "CONFIG_OCFS2_FS_POSIX_ACL" and mount options "acl" to enable acls in Ocfs2. Signed-off-by: Tiger Yang <tiger.yang@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
2008-12-01ocfs2: Small documentation updateMark Fasheh
Remove some features from the "not-supported" list that are actually supported now. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
2008-10-13ocfs2: Documentation update for user_xattr / nouser_xattr mount optionsMark Fasheh
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
2008-10-13ocfs2: Add the 'inode64' mount option.Joel Becker
Now that ocfs2 limits inode numbers to 32bits, add a mount option to disable the limit. This parallels XFS. 64bit systems can handle the larger inode numbers. [ Added description of inode64 mount option in ocfs2.txt. --Mark ] Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
2008-01-25[PATCH 2/2] ocfs2: cluster aware flock()Mark Fasheh
Hook up ocfs2_flock(), using the new flock lock type in dlmglue.c. A new mount option, "localflocks" is added so that users can revert to old functionality as need be. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2008-01-25ocfs2: Local alloc window size changeable via mount optionSunil Mushran
Local alloc is a performance optimization in ocfs2 in which a node takes a window of bits from the global bitmap and then uses that for all small local allocations. This window size is fixed to 8MB currently. This patch allows users to specify the window size in MB including disabling it by passing in 0. If the number specified is too large, the fs will use the default value of 8MB. mount -o localalloc=X /dev/sdX /mntpoint Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2008-01-25ocfs2: Support commit= mount optionMark Fasheh
Mostly taken from ext3. This allows the user to set the jbd commit interval, in seconds. The default of 5 seconds stays the same, but now users can easily increase the commit interval. Typically, this would be increased in order to benefit performance at the expense of data-safety. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2008-01-25ocfs2: Documentation updateMark Fasheh
Remove 'readpages' from the list in ocfs2.txt. Instead of having two identical lists, I just removed the list in the OCFS2 section of fs/Kconfig and added a pointer to Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2007-09-11ocfs2: update docs for new featuresMark Fasheh
Update documentation listing ocfs2 features to reflect the current state of the file system. Add missing descriptions for some mount options which ocfs2 supports. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-12-07ocfs2: update mount option documentationTiger Yang
We forgot to document the atime_quantum mount option in ocfs2.txt. This adds a proper description of how it works. Signed-off-by: Tiger Yang <tiger.yang@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-11-30Fix typos in /Documentation : 'U-Z'Matt LaPlante
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some +words starting with the letters 'U-Z'. Looks like I made it through the alphabet...just in time to start over again +too! Maybe I can fit more profound fixes into the next round...? Time will +tell. :) Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-02-03[OCFS2] Documentation FixJ. Bruce Fields
Update ocfs2.txt to add "cluster aware lockf" under missing features. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-01-03[PATCH] OCFS2: The Second Oracle Cluster FilesystemMark Fasheh
The OCFS2 file system module. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Kurt Hackel <kurt.hackel@oracle.com>