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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/jfs.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 23 |
5 files changed, 45 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index 28bfea75bcf2..59c14159cc47 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ prototypes: int (*d_delete)(struct dentry *); void (*d_release)(struct dentry *); void (*d_iput)(struct dentry *, struct inode *); + char *(*d_dname)((struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, int buflen); locking rules: none have BKL @@ -25,6 +26,7 @@ d_compare: no yes no no d_delete: yes no yes no d_release: no no no yes d_iput: no no no yes +d_dname: no no no no --------------------------- inode_operations --------------------------- prototypes: diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/jfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/jfs.txt index bae128663748..26ebde77e821 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/jfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/jfs.txt @@ -29,7 +29,13 @@ errors=continue Keep going on a filesystem error. errors=remount-ro Default. Remount the filesystem read-only on an error. errors=panic Panic and halt the machine if an error occurs. -Please send bugs, comments, cards and letters to shaggy@austin.ibm.com. +uid=value Override on-disk uid with specified value +gid=value Override on-disk gid with specified value +umask=value Override on-disk umask with specified octal value. For + directories, the execute bit will be set if the corresponding + read bit is set. + +Please send bugs, comments, cards and letters to shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com. The JFS mailing list can be subscribed to by using the link labeled "Mail list Subscribe" at our web page http://jfs.sourceforge.net/ diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 3f4b226572e7..4f3e84c520a5 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -1138,6 +1138,13 @@ determine whether or not they are still functioning properly. Because the NMI watchdog shares registers with oprofile, by disabling the NMI watchdog, oprofile may have more registers to utilize. +maps_protect +------------ + +Enables/Disables the protection of the per-process proc entries "maps" and +"smaps". When enabled, the contents of these files are visible only to +readers that are allowed to ptrace() the given process. + 2.4 /proc/sys/vm - The virtual memory subsystem ----------------------------------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt index 069cb1094300..fcc123ffa252 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt @@ -57,6 +57,13 @@ nonumtail=<bool> -- When creating 8.3 aliases, normally the alias will currently exist in the directory, 'longfile.txt' will be the short alias instead of 'longfi~1.txt'. +usefree -- Use the "free clusters" value stored on FSINFO. It'll + be used to determine number of free clusters without + scanning disk. But it's not used by default, because + recent Windows don't update it correctly in some + case. If you are sure the "free clusters" on FSINFO is + correct, by this option you can avoid scanning disk. + quiet -- Stops printing certain warning messages. check=s|r|n -- Case sensitivity checking setting. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index ea271f2d3954..a47cc819f37b 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -827,7 +827,7 @@ This describes how a filesystem can overload the standard dentry operations. Dentries and the dcache are the domain of the VFS and the individual filesystem implementations. Device drivers have no business here. These methods may be set to NULL, as they are either optional or -the VFS uses a default. As of kernel 2.6.13, the following members are +the VFS uses a default. As of kernel 2.6.22, the following members are defined: struct dentry_operations { @@ -837,6 +837,7 @@ struct dentry_operations { int (*d_delete)(struct dentry *); void (*d_release)(struct dentry *); void (*d_iput)(struct dentry *, struct inode *); + char *(*d_dname)(struct dentry *, char *, int); }; d_revalidate: called when the VFS needs to revalidate a dentry. This @@ -859,6 +860,26 @@ struct dentry_operations { VFS calls iput(). If you define this method, you must call iput() yourself + d_dname: called when the pathname of a dentry should be generated. + Usefull for some pseudo filesystems (sockfs, pipefs, ...) to delay + pathname generation. (Instead of doing it when dentry is created, + its done only when the path is needed.). Real filesystems probably + dont want to use it, because their dentries are present in global + dcache hash, so their hash should be an invariant. As no lock is + held, d_dname() should not try to modify the dentry itself, unless + appropriate SMP safety is used. CAUTION : d_path() logic is quite + tricky. The correct way to return for example "Hello" is to put it + at the end of the buffer, and returns a pointer to the first char. + dynamic_dname() helper function is provided to take care of this. + +Example : + +static char *pipefs_dname(struct dentry *dent, char *buffer, int buflen) +{ + return dynamic_dname(dentry, buffer, buflen, "pipe:[%lu]", + dentry->d_inode->i_ino); +} + Each dentry has a pointer to its parent dentry, as well as a hash list of child dentries. Child dentries are basically like files in a directory. |
