linux/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt, branch master

ext4: move ext4.txt into its own directory

2018-07-29T19:35:00Z

Move Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt into Documentation/filesystems/ext4/ext4.rst in preparation for adding more ext4 documentation. Note that the documentation isn't in rst format yet, but as it's not linked from anywhere it won't cause build errors. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

2018-02-03T21:49:22Z

Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o: "Only miscellaneous cleanups and bug fixes for ext4 this cycle" * tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: ext4: create ext4_kset dynamically ext4: create ext4_feat kobject dynamically ext4: release kobject/kset even when init/register fail ext4: fix incorrect indentation of if statement ext4: correct documentation for grpid mount option ext4: use 'sbi' instead of 'EXT4_SB(sb)' ext4: save error to disk in __ext4_grp_locked_error() jbd2: fix sphinx kernel-doc build warnings ext4: fix a race in the ext4 shutdown path mbcache: make sure c_entry_count is not decremented past zero ext4: no need flush workqueue before destroying it ext4: fixed alignment and minor code cleanup in ext4.h ext4: fix ENOSPC handling in DAX page fault handler dax: pass detailed error code from dax_iomap_fault() mbcache: revert "fs/mbcache.c: make count_objects() more robust" mbcache: initialize entry->e_referenced in mb_cache_entry_create() ext4: fix up remaining files with SPDX cleanups

ext4: correct documentation for grpid mount option

2018-01-11T18:43:33Z

The grpid option is currently described as being the same as nogrpid. Signed-off-by: Ernesto A. Fernández Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

fs/*/Kconfig: drop links to 404-compliant http://acl.bestbits.at

2018-01-01T19:45:37Z

This link is replicated in most filesystems' config stanzas. Referring to an archived version of that site is pointless as it mostly deals with patches; user documentation is available elsewhere. Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski CC: Alexander Viro Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong Acked-by: Jan Kara Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp Acked-by: David Sterba Acked-by: "Yan, Zheng" Acked-by: Chao Yu Acked-by: Jaegeuk Kim Acked-by: Steve French Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Documentation: fix little inconsistencies

2017-09-26T20:30:48Z

Fix little inconsistencies in Documentation: make case and spacing match surrounding text. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Documentation: Fix dead URLs to ftp.kernel.org

2017-03-29T21:46:06Z

As ftp.kernel.org is closed [0], this commit fixes dead URLs in documents to use www.kernel.org instead. [0] https://www.kernel.org/shutting-down-ftp-services.html Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o Acked-by: David S. Miller Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Documentation: fix description of ext4's block_validity mount option

2016-12-03T21:44:45Z

Fix ext4 documentation according to commit 45f1a9c3f63d ("ext4: enable block_validity by default") Also fix some typos. [ Further documentation cleanups by tytso ] Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

ext4: add DAX functionality

2015-02-17T01:56:04Z

This is a port of the DAX functionality found in the current version of ext2. [matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com: heavily tweaked] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remap_pages went away] Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Boaz Harrosh Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Theodore Ts'o Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial

2013-09-06T16:36:28Z

Pull trivial tree from Jiri Kosina: "The usual trivial updates all over the tree -- mostly typo fixes and documentation updates" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (52 commits) doc: Documentation/cputopology.txt fix typo treewide: Convert retrun typos to return Fix comment typo for init_cma_reserved_pageblock Documentation/trace: Correcting and extending tracepoint documentation mm/hotplug: fix a typo in Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt power: Documentation: Update s2ram link doc: fix a typo in Documentation/00-INDEX Documentation/printk-formats.txt: No casts needed for u64/s64 doc: Fix typo "is is" in Documentations treewide: Fix printks with 0x%# zram: doc fixes Documentation/kmemcheck: update kmemcheck documentation doc: documentation/hwspinlock.txt fix typo PM / Hibernate: add section for resume options doc: filesystems : Fix typo in Documentations/filesystems scsi/megaraid fixed several typos in comments ppc: init_32: Fix error typo "CONFIG_START_KERNEL" treewide: Add __GFP_NOWARN to k.alloc calls with v.alloc fallbacks page_isolation: Fix a comment typo in test_pages_isolated() doc: fix a typo about irq affinity ...

ext4: allow specifying external journal by pathname mount option

2013-08-28T23:05:07Z

It's always been a hassle that if an external journal's device number changes, the filesystem won't mount. And since boot-time enumeration can change, device number changes aren't unusual. The current mechanism to update the journal location is by passing in a mount option w/ a new devnum, but that's a hassle; it's a manual approach, fixing things after the fact. Adding a mount option, "-o journal_path=/dev/$DEVICE" would help, since then we can do i.e. # mount -o journal_path=/dev/disk/by-label/$JOURNAL_LABEL ... and it'll mount even if the devnum has changed, as shown here: # losetup /dev/loop0 journalfile # mke2fs -L mylabel-journal -O journal_dev /dev/loop0 # mkfs.ext4 -L mylabel -J device=/dev/loop0 /dev/sdb1 Change the journal device number: # losetup -d /dev/loop0 # losetup /dev/loop1 journalfile And today it will fail: # mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/test mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so # dmesg | tail -n 1 [17343.240702] EXT4-fs (sdb1): error: couldn't read superblock of external journal But with this new mount option, we can specify the new path: # mount -o journal_path=/dev/loop1 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/test # (which does update the encoded device number, incidentally): # umount /dev/sdb1 # dumpe2fs -h /dev/sdb1 | grep "Journal device" dumpe2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010) Journal device: 0x0701 But best of all we can just always mount by journal-path, and it'll always work: # mount -o journal_path=/dev/disk/by-label/mylabel-journal /dev/sdb1 /mnt/test # So the journal_path option can be specified in fstab, and as long as the disk is available somewhere, and findable by label (or by UUID), we can mount. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino