* [PATCH v7 7/7] Documentation: update nfs option in filesystem/vfat.txt
@ 2013-03-02 3:45 Namjae Jeon
2013-03-04 12:44 ` Rob Landley
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Namjae Jeon @ 2013-03-02 3:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: hirofumi, akpm
Cc: linux-fsdevel, linux-kernel, Namjae Jeon, Namjae Jeon,
Ravishankar N, Amit Sahrawat
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..4a93e98 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
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