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authorJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>2009-10-28 01:45:17 +0300
committerJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>2009-10-28 01:45:17 +0300
commite343eb0d60f74547e0aeb5bd151105c2e6cfe588 (patch)
tree92586df0daf3298262a957640e5c86679c963f41 /Documentation/filesystems
parentddc04fd4d5163aee9ebdb38a56c365b602e2b7b7 (diff)
parent012abeea669ea49636cf952d13298bb68654146a (diff)
downloadlinux-e343eb0d60f74547e0aeb5bd151105c2e6cfe588.tar.xz
Merge commit 'v2.6.32-rc5' into for-2.6.33
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt16
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt2
4 files changed, 23 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt
index 570f9bd9be2b..05d5cf1d743f 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt
@@ -123,10 +123,18 @@ resuid=n The user ID which may use the reserved blocks.
sb=n Use alternate superblock at this location.
-quota
-noquota
-grpquota
-usrquota
+quota These options are ignored by the filesystem. They
+noquota are used only by quota tools to recognize volumes
+grpquota where quota should be turned on. See documentation
+usrquota in the quota-tools package for more details
+ (http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxquota).
+
+jqfmt=<quota type> These options tell filesystem details about quota
+usrjquota=<file> so that quota information can be properly updated
+grpjquota=<file> during journal replay. They replace the above
+ quota options. See documentation in the quota-tools
+ package for more details
+ (http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxquota).
bh (*) ext3 associates buffer heads to data pages to
nobh (a) cache disk block mapping information
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
index 18b5ec8cea45..bf4f4b7e11b3 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
@@ -282,9 +282,16 @@ stripe=n Number of filesystem blocks that mballoc will try
to use for allocation size and alignment. For RAID5/6
systems this should be the number of data
disks * RAID chunk size in file system blocks.
-delalloc (*) Deferring block allocation until write-out time.
-nodelalloc Disable delayed allocation. Blocks are allocation
- when data is copied from user to page cache.
+
+delalloc (*) Defer block allocation until just before ext4
+ writes out the block(s) in question. This
+ allows ext4 to better allocation decisions
+ more efficiently.
+nodelalloc Disable delayed allocation. Blocks are allocated
+ when the data is copied from userspace to the
+ page cache, either via the write(2) system call
+ or when an mmap'ed page which was previously
+ unallocated is written for the first time.
max_batch_time=usec Maximum amount of time ext4 should wait for
additional filesystem operations to be batch
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index b5aee7838a00..2c48f945546b 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -1113,7 +1113,6 @@ Table 1-12: Files in /proc/fs/ext4/<devname>
..............................................................................
File Content
mb_groups details of multiblock allocator buddy cache of free blocks
- mb_history multiblock allocation history
..............................................................................
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
index b58b84b50fa2..eed520fd0c8e 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ shortname=lower|win95|winnt|mixed
winnt: emulate the Windows NT rule for display/create.
mixed: emulate the Windows NT rule for display,
emulate the Windows 95 rule for create.
- Default setting is `lower'.
+ Default setting is `mixed'.
tz=UTC -- Interpret timestamps as UTC rather than local time.
This option disables the conversion of timestamps