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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-12-20 21:04:49 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-12-20 21:04:49 +0300
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Merge tag 'gfs2-for-5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gfs2/linux-gfs2
Pull gfs2 updates from Andreas Gruenbacher: - Don't wait for unfreeze of the wrong filesystems - Remove an obsolete delete_work_func hack and an incorrect sb_start_write - Minor documentation updates and cosmetic care * tag 'gfs2-for-5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gfs2/linux-gfs2: gfs2: in signal_our_withdraw wait for unfreeze of _this_ fs only gfs2: Remove sb_start_write from gfs2_statfs_sync gfs2: remove trailing semicolons from macro definitions Revert "GFS2: Prevent delete work from occurring on glocks used for create" gfs2: Make inode operations static MAINTAINERS: Add gfs2 bug tracker link Documentation: Update filesystems/gfs2.rst
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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
-==================
-Global File System
-==================
+====================
+Global File System 2
+====================
-https://fedorahosted.org/cluster/wiki/HomePage
-
-GFS is a cluster file system. It allows a cluster of computers to
+GFS2 is a cluster file system. It allows a cluster of computers to
simultaneously use a block device that is shared between them (with FC,
-iSCSI, NBD, etc). GFS reads and writes to the block device like a local
+iSCSI, NBD, etc). GFS2 reads and writes to the block device like a local
file system, but also uses a lock module to allow the computers coordinate
their I/O so file system consistency is maintained. One of the nifty
-features of GFS is perfect consistency -- changes made to the file system
+features of GFS2 is perfect consistency -- changes made to the file system
on one machine show up immediately on all other machines in the cluster.
-GFS uses interchangeable inter-node locking mechanisms, the currently
+GFS2 uses interchangeable inter-node locking mechanisms, the currently
supported mechanisms are:
lock_nolock
- - allows gfs to be used as a local file system
+ - allows GFS2 to be used as a local file system
lock_dlm
- - uses a distributed lock manager (dlm) for inter-node locking.
+ - uses the distributed lock manager (dlm) for inter-node locking.
The dlm is found at linux/fs/dlm/
-Lock_dlm depends on user space cluster management systems found
+lock_dlm depends on user space cluster management systems found
at the URL above.
-To use gfs as a local file system, no external clustering systems are
+To use GFS2 as a local file system, no external clustering systems are
needed, simply::
$ mkfs -t gfs2 -p lock_nolock -j 1 /dev/block_device
$ mount -t gfs2 /dev/block_device /dir
-If you are using Fedora, you need to install the gfs2-utils package
-and, for lock_dlm, you will also need to install the cman package
-and write a cluster.conf as per the documentation. For F17 and above
-cman has been replaced by the dlm package.
+The gfs2-utils package is required on all cluster nodes and, for lock_dlm, you
+will also need the dlm and corosync user space utilities configured as per the
+documentation.
+
+gfs2-utils can be found at https://pagure.io/gfs2-utils
GFS2 is not on-disk compatible with previous versions of GFS, but it
is pretty close.
-The following man pages can be found at the URL above:
+The following man pages are available from gfs2-utils:
============ =============================================
fsck.gfs2 to repair a filesystem
gfs2_grow to expand a filesystem online
gfs2_jadd to add journals to a filesystem online
tunegfs2 to manipulate, examine and tune a filesystem
- gfs2_convert to convert a gfs filesystem to gfs2 in-place
+ gfs2_convert to convert a gfs filesystem to GFS2 in-place
mkfs.gfs2 to make a filesystem
============ =============================================