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| author | Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com> | 2013-04-29 16:21:15 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-04-29 18:28:41 -0700 |
| commit | 27cf10e133c393f39399137b028c7b24d64ca06e (patch) | |
| tree | f8898aa637e41a6209d230d5857b295576dac930 /Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt | |
| parent | f1e6fb0ab451dae8523fbb8c119a653b2730e938 (diff) | |
Documentation: update nfs option in filesystem/vfat.txt
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>
Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt | 26 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt index d230dd9c99b0..4a93e98b290a 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 |