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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/dlmfs.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst | 18 |
3 files changed, 20 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/dlmfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/dlmfs.rst index 68daaa7facf9..28dd41a63be2 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/dlmfs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/dlmfs.rst @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ dlmfs is built with OCFS2 as it requires most of its infrastructure. :Project web page: http://ocfs2.wiki.kernel.org :Tools web page: https://github.com/markfasheh/ocfs2-tools -:OCFS2 mailing lists: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/mailman/ +:OCFS2 mailing lists: https://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/mailman/ All code copyright 2005 Oracle except when otherwise noted. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.rst index 412386bc6506..42ca9a3d4c6e 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.rst @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ get "mount.ocfs2" and "ocfs2_hb_ctl". Project web page: http://ocfs2.wiki.kernel.org Tools git tree: https://github.com/markfasheh/ocfs2-tools -OCFS2 mailing lists: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/mailman/ +OCFS2 mailing lists: https://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/mailman/ All code copyright 2005 Oracle except when otherwise noted. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst index 4e95929301a5..c44f8b1d3cab 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst @@ -150,6 +150,22 @@ These options do not have any effect on remount. You can change these parameters with chmod(1), chown(1) and chgrp(1) on a mounted filesystem. +tmpfs has a mount option to select whether it will wrap at 32- or 64-bit inode +numbers: + +======= ======================== +inode64 Use 64-bit inode numbers +inode32 Use 32-bit inode numbers +======= ======================== + +On a 32-bit kernel, inode32 is implicit, and inode64 is refused at mount time. +On a 64-bit kernel, CONFIG_TMPFS_INODE64 sets the default. inode64 avoids the +possibility of multiple files with the same inode number on a single device; +but risks glibc failing with EOVERFLOW once 33-bit inode numbers are reached - +if a long-lived tmpfs is accessed by 32-bit applications so ancient that +opening a file larger than 2GiB fails with EINVAL. + + So 'mount -t tmpfs -o size=10G,nr_inodes=10k,mode=700 tmpfs /mytmpfs' will give you tmpfs instance on /mytmpfs which can allocate 10GB RAM/SWAP in 10240 inodes and it is only accessible by root. @@ -161,3 +177,5 @@ RAM/SWAP in 10240 inodes and it is only accessible by root. Hugh Dickins, 4 June 2007 :Updated: KOSAKI Motohiro, 16 Mar 2010 +:Updated: + Chris Down, 13 July 2020 |