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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/btrfs.rst | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/netfs_library.rst | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst | 4 |
3 files changed, 22 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/btrfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/btrfs.rst index d0904f602819..992eddb0e11b 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/btrfs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/btrfs.rst @@ -19,13 +19,23 @@ The main Btrfs features include: * Subvolumes (separate internal filesystem roots) * Object level mirroring and striping * Checksums on data and metadata (multiple algorithms available) - * Compression + * Compression (multiple algorithms available) + * Reflink, deduplication + * Scrub (on-line checksum verification) + * Hierarchical quota groups (subvolume and snapshot support) * Integrated multiple device support, with several raid algorithms * Offline filesystem check - * Efficient incremental backup and FS mirroring + * Efficient incremental backup and FS mirroring (send/receive) + * Trim/discard * Online filesystem defragmentation + * Swapfile support + * Zoned mode + * Read/write metadata verification + * Online resize (shrink, grow) -For more information please refer to the wiki +For more information please refer to the documentation site or wiki + + https://btrfs.readthedocs.io https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/netfs_library.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/netfs_library.rst index 4d19b19bcc08..73a4176144b3 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/netfs_library.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/netfs_library.rst @@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ through which it can issue requests and negotiate:: void (*issue_read)(struct netfs_io_subrequest *subreq); bool (*is_still_valid)(struct netfs_io_request *rreq); int (*check_write_begin)(struct file *file, loff_t pos, unsigned len, - struct folio *folio, void **_fsdata); + struct folio **foliop, void **_fsdata); void (*done)(struct netfs_io_request *rreq); }; @@ -381,8 +381,10 @@ The operations are as follows: allocated/grabbed the folio to be modified to allow the filesystem to flush conflicting state before allowing it to be modified. - It should return 0 if everything is now fine, -EAGAIN if the folio should be - regrabbed and any other error code to abort the operation. + It may unlock and discard the folio it was given and set the caller's folio + pointer to NULL. It should return 0 if everything is now fine (``*foliop`` + left set) or the op should be retried (``*foliop`` cleared) and any other + error code to abort the operation. * ``done`` diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst index 7da6c30ed596..316cfd8b1891 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst @@ -466,6 +466,10 @@ overlay filesystem and the value of st_ino for filesystem objects may not be persistent and could change even while the overlay filesystem is mounted, as summarized in the `Inode properties`_ table above. +4) "idmapped mounts" +When the upper or lower layers are idmapped mounts overlayfs will be mounted +without support for POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs). This limitation will +eventually be lifted. Changes to underlying filesystems --------------------------------- |