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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 12525b17d9ed..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,363 +0,0 @@ - -The SGI XFS Filesystem -====================== - -XFS is a high performance journaling filesystem which originated -on the SGI IRIX platform. It is completely multi-threaded, can -support large files and large filesystems, extended attributes, -variable block sizes, is extent based, and makes extensive use of -Btrees (directories, extents, free space) to aid both performance -and scalability. - -Refer to the documentation at http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/ -for further details. This implementation is on-disk compatible -with the IRIX version of XFS. - - -Mount Options -============= - -When mounting an XFS filesystem, the following options are accepted. -For boolean mount options, the names with the (*) suffix is the -default behaviour. - - allocsize=size - Sets the buffered I/O end-of-file preallocation size when - doing delayed allocation writeout (default size is 64KiB). - Valid values for this option are page size (typically 4KiB) - through to 1GiB, inclusive, in power-of-2 increments. - - The default behaviour is for dynamic end-of-file - preallocation size, which uses a set of heuristics to - optimise the preallocation size based on the current - allocation patterns within the file and the access patterns - to the file. Specifying a fixed allocsize value turns off - the dynamic behaviour. - - attr2 - noattr2 - The options enable/disable an "opportunistic" improvement to - be made in the way inline extended attributes are stored - on-disk. When the new form is used for the first time when - attr2 is selected (either when setting or removing extended - attributes) the on-disk superblock feature bit field will be - updated to reflect this format being in use. - - The default behaviour is determined by the on-disk feature - bit indicating that attr2 behaviour is active. If either - mount option it set, then that becomes the new default used - by the filesystem. - - CRC enabled filesystems always use the attr2 format, and so - will reject the noattr2 mount option if it is set. - - barrier (*) - nobarrier - Enables/disables the use of block layer write barriers for - writes into the journal and for data integrity operations. - This allows for drive level write caching to be enabled, for - devices that support write barriers. - - discard - nodiscard (*) - Enable/disable the issuing of commands to let the block - device reclaim space freed by the filesystem. This is - useful for SSD devices, thinly provisioned LUNs and virtual - machine images, but may have a performance impact. - - Note: It is currently recommended that you use the fstrim - application to discard unused blocks rather than the discard - mount option because the performance impact of this option - is quite severe. - - grpid/bsdgroups - nogrpid/sysvgroups (*) - These options define what group ID a newly created file - gets. When grpid is set, it takes the group ID of the - directory in which it is created; otherwise it takes the - fsgid of the current process, unless the directory has the - setgid bit set, in which case it takes the gid from the - parent directory, and also gets the setgid bit set if it is - a directory itself. - - filestreams - Make the data allocator use the filestreams allocation mode - across the entire filesystem rather than just on directories - configured to use it. - - ikeep - noikeep (*) - When ikeep is specified, XFS does not delete empty inode - clusters and keeps them around on disk. When noikeep is - specified, empty inode clusters are returned to the free - space pool. - - inode32 - inode64 (*) - When inode32 is specified, it indicates that XFS limits - inode creation to locations which will not result in inode - numbers with more than 32 bits of significance. - - When inode64 is specified, it indicates that XFS is allowed - to create inodes at any location in the filesystem, - including those which will result in inode numbers occupying - more than 32 bits of significance. - - inode32 is provided for backwards compatibility with older - systems and applications, since 64 bits inode numbers might - cause problems for some applications that cannot handle - large inode numbers. If applications are in use which do - not handle inode numbers bigger than 32 bits, the inode32 - option should be specified. - - - largeio - nolargeio (*) - If "nolargeio" is specified, the optimal I/O reported in - st_blksize by stat(2) will be as small as possible to allow - user applications to avoid inefficient read/modify/write - I/O. This is typically the page size of the machine, as - this is the granularity of the page cache. - - If "largeio" specified, a filesystem that was created with a - "swidth" specified will return the "swidth" value (in bytes) - in st_blksize. If the filesystem does not have a "swidth" - specified but does specify an "allocsize" then "allocsize" - (in bytes) will be returned instead. Otherwise the behaviour - is the same as if "nolargeio" was specified. - - logbufs=value - Set the number of in-memory log buffers. Valid numbers - range from 2-8 inclusive. - - The default value is 8 buffers. - - If the memory cost of 8 log buffers is too high on small - systems, then it may be reduced at some cost to performance - on metadata intensive workloads. The logbsize option below - controls the size of each buffer and so is also relevent to - this case. - - logbsize=value - Set the size of each in-memory log buffer. The size may be - specified in bytes, or in kilobytes with a "k" suffix. - Valid sizes for version 1 and version 2 logs are 16384 (16k) - and 32768 (32k). Valid sizes for version 2 logs also - include 65536 (64k), 131072 (128k) and 262144 (256k). The - logbsize must be an integer multiple of the log - stripe unit configured at mkfs time. - - The default value for for version 1 logs is 32768, while the - default value for version 2 logs is MAX(32768, log_sunit). - - logdev=device and rtdev=device - Use an external log (metadata journal) and/or real-time device. - An XFS filesystem has up to three parts: a data section, a log - section, and a real-time section. The real-time section is - optional, and the log section can be separate from the data - section or contained within it. - - noalign - Data allocations will not be aligned at stripe unit - boundaries. This is only relevant to filesystems created - with non-zero data alignment parameters (sunit, swidth) by - mkfs. - - norecovery - The filesystem will be mounted without running log recovery. - If the filesystem was not cleanly unmounted, it is likely to - be inconsistent when mounted in "norecovery" mode. - Some files or directories may not be accessible because of this. - Filesystems mounted "norecovery" must be mounted read-only or - the mount will fail. - - nouuid - Don't check for double mounted file systems using the file - system uuid. This is useful to mount LVM snapshot volumes, - and often used in combination with "norecovery" for mounting - read-only snapshots. - - noquota - Forcibly turns off all quota accounting and enforcement - within the filesystem. - - uquota/usrquota/uqnoenforce/quota - User disk quota accounting enabled, and limits (optionally) - enforced. Refer to xfs_quota(8) for further details. - - gquota/grpquota/gqnoenforce - Group disk quota accounting enabled and limits (optionally) - enforced. Refer to xfs_quota(8) for further details. - - pquota/prjquota/pqnoenforce - Project disk quota accounting enabled and limits (optionally) - enforced. Refer to xfs_quota(8) for further details. - - sunit=value and swidth=value - Used to specify the stripe unit and width for a RAID device - or a stripe volume. "value" must be specified in 512-byte - block units. These options are only relevant to filesystems - that were created with non-zero data alignment parameters. - - The sunit and swidth parameters specified must be compatible - with the existing filesystem alignment characteristics. In - general, that means the only valid changes to sunit are - increasing it by a power-of-2 multiple. Valid swidth values - are any integer multiple of a valid sunit value. - - Typically the only time these mount options are necessary if - after an underlying RAID device has had it's geometry - modified, such as adding a new disk to a RAID5 lun and - reshaping it. - - swalloc - Data allocations will be rounded up to stripe width boundaries - when the current end of file is being extended and the file - size is larger than the stripe width size. - - wsync - When specified, all filesystem namespace operations are - executed synchronously. This ensures that when the namespace - operation (create, unlink, etc) completes, the change to the - namespace is on stable storage. This is useful in HA setups - where failover must not result in clients seeing - inconsistent namespace presentation during or after a - failover event. - - -Deprecated Mount Options -======================== - - delaylog/nodelaylog - Delayed logging is the only logging method that XFS supports - now, so these mount options are now ignored. - - Due for removal in 3.12. - - ihashsize=value - In memory inode hashes have been removed, so this option has - no function as of August 2007. Option is deprecated. - - Due for removal in 3.12. - - irixsgid - This behaviour is now controlled by a sysctl, so the mount - option is ignored. - - Due for removal in 3.12. - - osyncisdsync - osyncisosync - O_SYNC and O_DSYNC are fully supported, so there is no need - for these options any more. - - Due for removal in 3.12. - -sysctls -======= - -The following sysctls are available for the XFS filesystem: - - fs.xfs.stats_clear (Min: 0 Default: 0 Max: 1) - Setting this to "1" clears accumulated XFS statistics - in /proc/fs/xfs/stat. It then immediately resets to "0". - - fs.xfs.xfssyncd_centisecs (Min: 100 Default: 3000 Max: 720000) - The interval at which the filesystem flushes metadata - out to disk and runs internal cache cleanup routines. - - fs.xfs.filestream_centisecs (Min: 1 Default: 3000 Max: 360000) - The interval at which the filesystem ages filestreams cache - references and returns timed-out AGs back to the free stream - pool. - - fs.xfs.speculative_prealloc_lifetime - (Units: seconds Min: 1 Default: 300 Max: 86400) - The interval at which the background scanning for inodes - with unused speculative preallocation runs. The scan - removes unused preallocation from clean inodes and releases - the unused space back to the free pool. - - fs.xfs.error_level (Min: 0 Default: 3 Max: 11) - A volume knob for error reporting when internal errors occur. - This will generate detailed messages & backtraces for filesystem - shutdowns, for example. Current threshold values are: - - XFS_ERRLEVEL_OFF: 0 - XFS_ERRLEVEL_LOW: 1 - XFS_ERRLEVEL_HIGH: 5 - - fs.xfs.panic_mask (Min: 0 Default: 0 Max: 127) - Causes certain error conditions to call BUG(). Value is a bitmask; - AND together the tags which represent errors which should cause panics: - - XFS_NO_PTAG 0 - XFS_PTAG_IFLUSH 0x00000001 - XFS_PTAG_LOGRES 0x00000002 - XFS_PTAG_AILDELETE 0x00000004 - XFS_PTAG_ERROR_REPORT 0x00000008 - XFS_PTAG_SHUTDOWN_CORRUPT 0x00000010 - XFS_PTAG_SHUTDOWN_IOERROR 0x00000020 - XFS_PTAG_SHUTDOWN_LOGERROR 0x00000040 - - This option is intended for debugging only. - - fs.xfs.irix_symlink_mode (Min: 0 Default: 0 Max: 1) - Controls whether symlinks are created with mode 0777 (default) - or whether their mode is affected by the umask (irix mode). - - fs.xfs.irix_sgid_inherit (Min: 0 Default: 0 Max: 1) - Controls files created in SGID directories. - If the group ID of the new file does not match the effective group - ID or one of the supplementary group IDs of the parent dir, the - ISGID bit is cleared if the irix_sgid_inherit compatibility sysctl - is set. - - fs.xfs.inherit_sync (Min: 0 Default: 1 Max: 1) - Setting this to "1" will cause the "sync" flag set - by the xfs_io(8) chattr command on a directory to be - inherited by files in that directory. - - fs.xfs.inherit_nodump (Min: 0 Default: 1 Max: 1) - Setting this to "1" will cause the "nodump" flag set - by the xfs_io(8) chattr command on a directory to be - inherited by files in that directory. - - fs.xfs.inherit_noatime (Min: 0 Default: 1 Max: 1) - Setting this to "1" will cause the "noatime" flag set - by the xfs_io(8) chattr command on a directory to be - inherited by files in that directory. - - fs.xfs.inherit_nosymlinks (Min: 0 Default: 1 Max: 1) - Setting this to "1" will cause the "nosymlinks" flag set - by the xfs_io(8) chattr command on a directory to be - inherited by files in that directory. - - fs.xfs.inherit_nodefrag (Min: 0 Default: 1 Max: 1) - Setting this to "1" will cause the "nodefrag" flag set - by the xfs_io(8) chattr command on a directory to be - inherited by files in that directory. - - fs.xfs.rotorstep (Min: 1 Default: 1 Max: 256) - In "inode32" allocation mode, this option determines how many - files the allocator attempts to allocate in the same allocation - group before moving to the next allocation group. The intent - is to control the rate at which the allocator moves between - allocation groups when allocating extents for new files. - -Deprecated Sysctls -================== - - fs.xfs.xfsbufd_centisecs (Min: 50 Default: 100 Max: 3000) - Dirty metadata is now tracked by the log subsystem and - flushing is driven by log space and idling demands. The - xfsbufd no longer exists, so this syctl does nothing. - - Due for removal in 3.14. - - fs.xfs.age_buffer_centisecs (Min: 100 Default: 1500 Max: 720000) - Dirty metadata is now tracked by the log subsystem and - flushing is driven by log space and idling demands. The - xfsbufd no longer exists, so this syctl does nothing. - - Due for removal in 3.14. |