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| author | Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> | 2019-12-09 11:11:43 +0000 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2020-01-20 20:12:42 -0500 |
| commit | 76ed99d199f7b66b1f762392b19d115994d7e81b (patch) | |
| tree | 117800046bb0f900f6c9ce77b2493e144112f1e5 | |
| parent | 25e5d4df3b46a345dccc0a07f998ce443077b4ff (diff) | |
Documentation: update adfs filesystem documentation
Add an introduction to adfs to its documentation detailing which formats
are supported by the module.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt | 24 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt index 5949766353f7..0baa8e8c1fc1 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt @@ -1,3 +1,27 @@ +Filesystems supported by ADFS +----------------------------- + +The ADFS module supports the following Filecore formats which have: + +- new maps +- new directories or big directories + +In terms of the named formats, this means we support: + +- E and E+, with or without boot block +- F and F+ + +We fully support reading files from these filesystems, and writing to +existing files within their existing allocation. Essentially, we do +not support changing any of the filesystem metadata. + +This is intended to support loopback mounted Linux native filesystems +on a RISC OS Filecore filesystem, but will allow the data within files +to be changed. + +If write support (ADFS_FS_RW) is configured, we allow rudimentary +directory updates, specifically updating the access mode and timestamp. + Mount options for ADFS ---------------------- |