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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-uevents.rst (renamed from Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-uevents.txt) | 20 | ||||
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-uevents.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-uevents.rst index 19a19ebebc34..f162a2c76c69 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-uevents.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-uevents.rst @@ -1,14 +1,18 @@ - uevents and GFS2 - ================== +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +================ +uevents and GFS2 +================ During the lifetime of a GFS2 mount, a number of uevents are generated. This document explains what the events are and what they are used for (by gfs_controld in gfs2-utils). A list of GFS2 uevents ------------------------ +====================== 1. ADD +------ The ADD event occurs at mount time. It will always be the first uevent generated by the newly created filesystem. If the mount @@ -21,6 +25,7 @@ with no journal assigned), and read-only (with journal assigned) status of the filesystem respectively. 2. ONLINE +--------- The ONLINE uevent is generated after a successful mount or remount. It has the same environment variables as the ADD uevent. The ONLINE @@ -29,6 +34,7 @@ RDONLY are a relatively recent addition (2.6.32-rc+) and will not be generated by older kernels. 3. CHANGE +--------- The CHANGE uevent is used in two places. One is when reporting the successful mount of the filesystem by the first node (FIRSTMOUNT=Done). @@ -52,6 +58,7 @@ cluster. For this reason the ONLINE uevent was used when adding a new uevent for a successful mount or remount. 4. OFFLINE +---------- The OFFLINE uevent is only generated due to filesystem errors and is used as part of the "withdraw" mechanism. Currently this doesn't give any @@ -59,6 +66,7 @@ information about what the error is, which is something that needs to be fixed. 5. REMOVE +--------- The REMOVE uevent is generated at the end of an unsuccessful mount or at the end of a umount of the filesystem. All REMOVE uevents will @@ -68,9 +76,10 @@ kobject subsystem. Information common to all GFS2 uevents (uevent environment variables) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- +===================================================================== 1. LOCKTABLE= +-------------- The LOCKTABLE is a string, as supplied on the mount command line (locktable=) or via fstab. It is used as a filesystem label @@ -78,6 +87,7 @@ as well as providing the information for a lock_dlm mount to be able to join the cluster. 2. LOCKPROTO= +------------- The LOCKPROTO is a string, and its value depends on what is set on the mount command line, or via fstab. It will be either @@ -85,12 +95,14 @@ lock_nolock or lock_dlm. In the future other lock managers may be supported. 3. JOURNALID= +------------- If a journal is in use by the filesystem (journals are not assigned for spectator mounts) then this will give the numeric journal id in all GFS2 uevents. 4. UUID= +-------- With recent versions of gfs2-utils, mkfs.gfs2 writes a UUID into the filesystem superblock. If it exists, this will diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst index f24befe78326..c16e517e37c5 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst @@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ Documentation for filesystem implementations. ext3 f2fs gfs2 + gfs2-uevents fuse overlayfs virtiofs |