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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/configfs/Makefile | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/quota.txt | 22 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ubifs.txt | 2 |
4 files changed, 24 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/Makefile b/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/Makefile new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..be7ec5e67dbc --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/Makefile @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +ifneq ($(CONFIG_CONFIGFS_FS),) +obj-m += configfs_example_explicit.o configfs_example_macros.o +endif diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt index 80e193d82e2e..0d5394920a31 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt @@ -26,6 +26,12 @@ Mailing list: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git + - Note that it is highly important to install the mke2fs.conf file + that comes with the e2fsprogs 1.41.x sources in /etc/mke2fs.conf. If + you have edited the /etc/mke2fs.conf file installed on your system, + you will need to merge your changes with the version from e2fsprogs + 1.41.x. + - Create a new filesystem using the ext4dev filesystem type: # mke2fs -t ext4dev /dev/hda1 diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/quota.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/quota.txt index a590c4093eff..5e8de25bf0f1 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/quota.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/quota.txt @@ -3,14 +3,14 @@ Quota subsystem =============== Quota subsystem allows system administrator to set limits on used space and -number of used inodes (inode is a filesystem structure which is associated -with each file or directory) for users and/or groups. For both used space and -number of used inodes there are actually two limits. The first one is called -softlimit and the second one hardlimit. An user can never exceed a hardlimit -for any resource. User is allowed to exceed softlimit but only for limited -period of time. This period is called "grace period" or "grace time". When -grace time is over, user is not able to allocate more space/inodes until he -frees enough of them to get below softlimit. +number of used inodes (inode is a filesystem structure which is associated with +each file or directory) for users and/or groups. For both used space and number +of used inodes there are actually two limits. The first one is called softlimit +and the second one hardlimit. An user can never exceed a hardlimit for any +resource (unless he has CAP_SYS_RESOURCE capability). User is allowed to exceed +softlimit but only for limited period of time. This period is called "grace +period" or "grace time". When grace time is over, user is not able to allocate +more space/inodes until he frees enough of them to get below softlimit. Quota limits (and amount of grace time) are set independently for each filesystem. @@ -53,6 +53,12 @@ in parentheses): QUOTA_NL_BSOFTLONGWARN - space (block) softlimit is exceeded longer than given grace period. QUOTA_NL_BSOFTWARN - space (block) softlimit + - four warnings are also defined for the event when user stops + exceeding some limit: + QUOTA_NL_IHARDBELOW - inode hardlimit + QUOTA_NL_ISOFTBELOW - inode softlimit + QUOTA_NL_BHARDBELOW - space (block) hardlimit + QUOTA_NL_BSOFTBELOW - space (block) softlimit QUOTA_NL_A_DEV_MAJOR (u32) - major number of a device with the affected filesystem QUOTA_NL_A_DEV_MINOR (u32) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ubifs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ubifs.txt index 540e9e7f59c5..6a0d70a22f05 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ubifs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ubifs.txt @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Similarly to JFFS2, UBIFS supports on-the-flight compression which makes it possible to fit quite a lot of data to the flash. Similarly to JFFS2, UBIFS is tolerant of unclean reboots and power-cuts. -It does not need stuff like ckfs.ext2. UBIFS automatically replays its +It does not need stuff like fsck.ext2. UBIFS automatically replays its journal and recovers from crashes, ensuring that the on-flash data structures are consistent. |