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From: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@gmail.com>
To: hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@gmail.com>,
	Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>,
	Ravishankar N <ravi.n1@samsung.com>,
	Amit Sahrawat <a.sahrawat@samsung.com>
Subject: [PATCH v6 7/7] Documentation: update nfs option in filesystem/vfat.txt
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:03:11 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1360422191-12382-1-git-send-email-linkinjeon@gmail.com> (raw)

From: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>

Add descriptions about 'stale_rw' and 'nostale_ro' nfs options in
filesystem/vfat.txt

Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Ravishankar N <ravi.n1@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Sahrawat <a.sahrawat@samsung.com>
---
 Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt |   26 +++++++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
index d230dd9..1ce26d5 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
@@ -150,12 +150,28 @@ discard       -- If set, issues discard/TRIM commands to the block
 		 device when blocks are freed. This is useful for SSD devices
 		 and sparse/thinly-provisoned LUNs.
 
-nfs           -- This option maintains an index (cache) of directory
-		 inodes by i_logstart which is used by the nfs-related code to
-		 improve look-ups.
+nfs= stale_rw|nostale_ro
+		Enable this only if you want to export the FAT filesystem
+		over NFS.
+
+		stale_rw: This option maintains an index (cache) of directory
+		inodes by i_logstart which is used by the nfs-related code to
+		improve look-ups. Full file operations (read/write) over NFS is
+		supported but with cache eviction at NFS server, this could
+		result in ESTALE issues.
+
+		nostale_ro: This option bases the inode number and filehandle
+		on the on-disk location of a file in the MS-DOS directory entry.
+		This ensures that ESTALE will not be returned after a file is
+		evicted from the inode cache. However, it means that operations
+		such as rename, create and unlink could cause filehandles that
+		previously pointed at one file to point at a different file,
+		potentially causing data corruption. For this reason, this
+		option also mounts the filesystem readonly.
+
+		To maintain backward compatibility, '-o nfs' is also accepted,
+		defaulting to stale_rw
 
-		 Enable this only if you want to export the FAT filesystem
-		 over NFS
 
 <bool>: 0,1,yes,no,true,false
 
-- 
1.7.9.5

             reply	other threads:[~2013-02-09 15:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-09 15:03 Namjae Jeon [this message]
2013-02-18 11:09 ` [PATCH v6 7/7] Documentation: update nfs option in filesystem/vfat.txt OGAWA Hirofumi
2013-02-18 13:55   ` Namjae Jeon

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