From: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
To: cluster-devel.redhat.com
Subject: [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 09/24] GFS2: Update docs
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:30:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1244622665-7470-10-git-send-email-swhiteho@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1244622665-7470-9-git-send-email-swhiteho@redhat.com>
Update a few things which were out of date, and fix a typo.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-glocks.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-glocks.txt
index 4dae9a3..0494f78 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-glocks.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-glocks.txt
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ go_lock | Called for the first local holder of a lock
go_unlock | Called on the final local unlock of a lock
go_dump | Called to print content of object for debugfs file, or on
| error to dump glock to the log.
-go_type; | The type of the glock, LM_TYPE_.....
+go_type | The type of the glock, LM_TYPE_.....
go_min_hold_time | The minimum hold time
The minimum hold time for each lock is the time after a remote lock
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt
index 593004b..5e3ab8f 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt
@@ -11,18 +11,15 @@ 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
on one machine show up immediately on all other machines in the cluster.
-GFS uses interchangable inter-node locking mechanisms. Different lock
-modules can plug into GFS and each file system selects the appropriate
-lock module at mount time. Lock modules include:
+GFS uses interchangable inter-node locking mechanisms, the currently
+supported mechanisms are:
lock_nolock -- allows gfs to be used as a local file system
lock_dlm -- uses a distributed lock manager (dlm) for inter-node locking
The dlm is found at linux/fs/dlm/
-In addition to interfacing with an external locking manager, a gfs lock
-module is responsible for interacting with external cluster management
-systems. 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
@@ -31,13 +28,19 @@ needed, simply:
$ mkfs -t gfs2 -p lock_nolock -j 1 /dev/block_device
$ mount -t gfs2 /dev/block_device /dir
-GFS2 is not on-disk compatible with previous versions of GFS.
+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.
+
+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:
- gfs2_fsck to repair a filesystem
+ fsck.gfs2 to repair a filesystem
gfs2_grow to expand a filesystem online
gfs2_jadd to add journals to a filesystem online
gfs2_tool to manipulate, examine and tune a filesystem
gfs2_quota to examine and change quota values in a filesystem
+ gfs2_convert to convert a gfs filesystem to gfs2 in-place
mount.gfs2 to help mount(8) mount a filesystem
mkfs.gfs2 to make a filesystem
--
1.6.0.6
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Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-10 8:30 [Cluster-devel] GFS2: Pre-pull patch posting Steven Whitehouse
2009-06-10 8:30 ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 01/24] GFS2: Update the rw flags Steven Whitehouse
2009-06-10 8:30 ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 02/24] GFS2: Optimise writepage for metadata Steven Whitehouse
2009-06-10 8:30 ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 03/24] GFS2: Something nonlinear this way comes! Steven Whitehouse
2009-06-10 8:30 ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 04/24] GFS2: Fix timestamps on write Steven Whitehouse
2009-06-10 8:30 ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 05/24] GFS2: Move journal live test at transaction start Steven Whitehouse
2009-06-10 8:30 ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 06/24] GFS2: Add commit= mount option Steven Whitehouse
2009-06-10 8:30 ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 07/24] GFS2: Remove a couple of unused sysfs entries Steven Whitehouse
2009-06-10 8:30 ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 08/24] GFS2: Umount recovery race fix Steven Whitehouse
2009-06-10 8:30 ` Steven Whitehouse [this message]
2009-06-10 8:30 ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 10/24] GFS2: Don't warn when delete inode fails on ro filesystem Steven Whitehouse
2009-06-10 8:30 ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 11/24] GFS2: Improve resource group error handling Steven Whitehouse
2009-06-10 8:30 ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 12/24] GFS2: Add a rgrp bitmap full flag Steven Whitehouse
2009-06-10 8:30 ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 13/24] GFS2: Be more aggressive in reclaiming unlinked inodes Steven Whitehouse
2009-06-10 8:30 ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 14/24] GFS2: Clean up some file names Steven Whitehouse
2009-06-10 8:30 ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 15/24] GFS2: Merge mount.c and ops_super.c into super.c Steven Whitehouse
2009-06-10 8:30 ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 16/24] GFS2: Move gfs2_rmdiri into ops_inode.c Steven Whitehouse
2009-06-10 8:30 ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 17/24] GFS2: Move gfs2_readlinki " Steven Whitehouse
2009-06-10 8:30 ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 18/24] GFS2: Move gfs2_unlink_ok " Steven Whitehouse
2009-06-10 8:31 ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 19/24] GFS2: Remove lockstruct subdir from gfs2 sysfs files Steven Whitehouse
2009-06-10 8:31 ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 20/24] GFS2: Remove args " Steven Whitehouse
2009-06-10 8:31 ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 21/24] GFS2: smbd proccess hangs with flock() call Steven Whitehouse
2009-06-10 8:31 ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 22/24] GFS2: Remove unused variable Steven Whitehouse
2009-06-10 8:31 ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 23/24] GFS2: Fix locking issue mounting gfs2meta fs Steven Whitehouse
2009-06-10 8:31 ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 24/24] GFS2: Fix cache coherency between truncate and O_DIRECT read Steven Whitehouse
2009-06-10 9:53 ` [Cluster-devel] Re: [PATCH 23/24] GFS2: Fix locking issue mounting gfs2meta fs Christoph Hellwig
2009-06-10 10:06 ` Steven Whitehouse
2009-06-10 10:43 ` [Cluster-devel] GFS2: Merge gfs2_get_sb into gfs2_get_sb_meta Steven Whitehouse
2009-06-10 9:49 ` [Cluster-devel] Re: [PATCH 10/24] GFS2: Don't warn when delete inode fails on ro filesystem Christoph Hellwig
2009-06-10 10:03 ` Steven Whitehouse
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