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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/cifs/README29
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/cifs/TODO25
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt77
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt26
4 files changed, 111 insertions, 46 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/README b/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/README
index a9da51553ba3..99ce3d25003d 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/README
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/README
@@ -11,13 +11,14 @@ Information Foundation. CIFS and now SMB3 has now become a defacto
standard for interoperating between Macs and Windows and major NAS appliances.
Please see
+ MS-SMB2 (for detailed SMB2/SMB3/SMB3.1.1 protocol specification)
http://protocolfreedom.org/ and
http://samba.org/samba/PFIF/
for more details.
For questions or bug reports please contact:
- sfrench@samba.org (sfrench@us.ibm.com)
+ smfrench@gmail.com
See the project page at: https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/LinuxCIFS_utils
@@ -37,15 +38,15 @@ Installation instructions:
=========================
If you have built the CIFS vfs as module (successfully) simply
type "make modules_install" (or if you prefer, manually copy the file to
-the modules directory e.g. /lib/modules/2.4.10-4GB/kernel/fs/cifs/cifs.o).
+the modules directory e.g. /lib/modules/2.4.10-4GB/kernel/fs/cifs/cifs.ko).
If you have built the CIFS vfs into the kernel itself, follow the instructions
for your distribution on how to install a new kernel (usually you
would simply type "make install").
-If you do not have the utility mount.cifs (in the Samba 3.0 source tree and on
-the CIFS VFS web site) copy it to the same directory in which mount.smbfs and
-similar files reside (usually /sbin). Although the helper software is not
+If you do not have the utility mount.cifs (in the Samba 4.x source tree and on
+the CIFS VFS web site) copy it to the same directory in which mount helpers
+reside (usually /sbin). Although the helper software is not
required, mount.cifs is recommended. Most distros include a "cifs-utils"
package that includes this utility so it is recommended to install this.
@@ -118,10 +119,13 @@ this can become unwieldy when potential mount targets include many
or unpredictable UNC names.
Samba Considerations
-====================
-To get the maximum benefit from the CIFS VFS, we recommend using a server that
-supports the SNIA CIFS Unix Extensions standard (e.g. Samba 2.2.5 or later or
-Samba 3.0) but the CIFS vfs works fine with a wide variety of CIFS servers.
+====================
+Most current servers support SMB2.1 and SMB3 which are more secure,
+but there are useful protocol extensions for the older less secure CIFS
+dialect, so to get the maximum benefit if mounting using the older dialect
+(CIFS/SMB1), we recommend using a server that supports the SNIA CIFS
+Unix Extensions standard (e.g. almost any version of Samba ie version
+2.2.5 or later) but the CIFS vfs works fine with a wide variety of CIFS servers.
Note that uid, gid and file permissions will display default values if you do
not have a server that supports the Unix extensions for CIFS (such as Samba
2.2.5 or later). To enable the Unix CIFS Extensions in the Samba server, add
@@ -603,11 +607,6 @@ Stats Lists summary resource usage information as well as per
in the kernel configuration.
Configuration pseudo-files:
-PacketSigningEnabled If set to one, cifs packet signing is enabled
- and will be used if the server requires
- it. If set to two, cifs packet signing is
- required even if the server considers packet
- signing optional. (default 1)
SecurityFlags Flags which control security negotiation and
also packet signing. Authentication (may/must)
flags (e.g. for NTLM and/or NTLMv2) may be combined with
@@ -666,8 +665,6 @@ traceSMB If set to one, debug information is logged to the
LookupCacheEnable If set to one, inode information is kept cached
for one second improving performance of lookups
(default 1)
-OplockEnabled If set to one, safe distributed caching enabled.
- (default 1)
LinuxExtensionsEnabled If set to one then the client will attempt to
use the CIFS "UNIX" extensions which are optional
protocol enhancements that allow CIFS servers
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/TODO b/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/TODO
index 396ecfd6ff4a..c5adf149b57f 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/TODO
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/TODO
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Version 2.04 September 13, 2017
+Version 2.11 September 13, 2017
A Partial List of Missing Features
==================================
@@ -8,10 +8,10 @@ for visible, important contributions to this module. Here
is a partial list of the known problems and missing features:
a) SMB3 (and SMB3.02) missing optional features:
- - RDMA (started)
- - multichannel (started)
+ - multichannel (started), integration with RDMA
- directory leases (improved metadata caching)
- - T10 copy offload (copy chunk is only mechanism supported)
+ - T10 copy offload (copy chunk, and "Duplicate Extents" ioctl
+ currently the only two server side copy mechanisms supported)
b) improved sparse file support
@@ -21,9 +21,8 @@ using Directory Leases
d) quota support (needs minor kernel change since quota calls
to make it to network filesystems or deviceless filesystems)
-e) Better optimize open to reduce redundant opens (using reference
-counts more) and to improve use of compounding in SMB3 to reduce
-number of roundtrips.
+e) Compounding (in progress) to reduce number of roundtrips, and also
+better optimize open to reduce redundant opens (using reference counts more).
f) Finish inotify support so kde and gnome file list windows
will autorefresh (partially complete by Asser). Needs minor kernel
@@ -35,7 +34,8 @@ the CIFS statistics (started)
h) implement support for security and trusted categories of xattrs
(requires minor protocol extension) to enable better support for SELINUX
-i) Implement O_DIRECT flag on open (already supported on mount)
+i) Add support for tree connect contexts (see MS-SMB2) a new SMB3.1.1 protocol
+ feature (may be especially useful for virtualization).
j) Create UID mapping facility so server UIDs can be mapped on a per
mount or a per server basis to client UIDs or nobody if no mapping
@@ -53,13 +53,16 @@ viewing them.
o) mount helper GUI (to simplify the various configuration options on mount)
-p) autonegotiation of dialects (offering more than one dialect ie SMB3.02,
-SMB3, SMB2.1 not just SMB3).
+p) Add support for witness protocol (perhaps ioctl to cifs.ko from user space
+ tool listening on witness protocol RPC) to allow for notification of share
+ move, server failover, and server adapter changes. And also improve other
+ failover scenarios, e.g. when client knows multiple DFS entries point to
+ different servers, and the server we are connected to has gone down.
q) Allow mount.cifs to be more verbose in reporting errors with dialect
or unsupported feature errors.
-r) updating cifs documentation, and user guid.
+r) updating cifs documentation, and user guide.
s) Addressing bugs found by running a broader set of xfstests in standard
file system xfstest suite.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt
index 13c2ff034348..12a147c9f87f 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt
@@ -174,6 +174,23 @@ offgrpjquota Turn off group journelled quota.
offprjjquota Turn off project journelled quota.
quota Enable plain user disk quota accounting.
noquota Disable all plain disk quota option.
+whint_mode=%s Control which write hints are passed down to block
+ layer. This supports "off", "user-based", and
+ "fs-based". In "off" mode (default), f2fs does not pass
+ down hints. In "user-based" mode, f2fs tries to pass
+ down hints given by users. And in "fs-based" mode, f2fs
+ passes down hints with its policy.
+alloc_mode=%s Adjust block allocation policy, which supports "reuse"
+ and "default".
+fsync_mode=%s Control the policy of fsync. Currently supports "posix"
+ and "strict". In "posix" mode, which is default, fsync
+ will follow POSIX semantics and does a light operation
+ to improve the filesystem performance. In "strict" mode,
+ fsync will be heavy and behaves in line with xfs, ext4
+ and btrfs, where xfstest generic/342 will pass, but the
+ performance will regress.
+test_dummy_encryption Enable dummy encryption, which provides a fake fscrypt
+ context. The fake fscrypt context is used by xfstests.
================================================================================
DEBUGFS ENTRIES
@@ -611,3 +628,63 @@ algorithm.
In order to identify whether the data in the victim segment are valid or not,
F2FS manages a bitmap. Each bit represents the validity of a block, and the
bitmap is composed of a bit stream covering whole blocks in main area.
+
+Write-hint Policy
+-----------------
+
+1) whint_mode=off. F2FS only passes down WRITE_LIFE_NOT_SET.
+
+2) whint_mode=user-based. F2FS tries to pass down hints given by
+users.
+
+User F2FS Block
+---- ---- -----
+ META WRITE_LIFE_NOT_SET
+ HOT_NODE "
+ WARM_NODE "
+ COLD_NODE "
+*ioctl(COLD) COLD_DATA WRITE_LIFE_EXTREME
+*extension list " "
+
+-- buffered io
+WRITE_LIFE_EXTREME COLD_DATA WRITE_LIFE_EXTREME
+WRITE_LIFE_SHORT HOT_DATA WRITE_LIFE_SHORT
+WRITE_LIFE_NOT_SET WARM_DATA WRITE_LIFE_NOT_SET
+WRITE_LIFE_NONE " "
+WRITE_LIFE_MEDIUM " "
+WRITE_LIFE_LONG " "
+
+-- direct io
+WRITE_LIFE_EXTREME COLD_DATA WRITE_LIFE_EXTREME
+WRITE_LIFE_SHORT HOT_DATA WRITE_LIFE_SHORT
+WRITE_LIFE_NOT_SET WARM_DATA WRITE_LIFE_NOT_SET
+WRITE_LIFE_NONE " WRITE_LIFE_NONE
+WRITE_LIFE_MEDIUM " WRITE_LIFE_MEDIUM
+WRITE_LIFE_LONG " WRITE_LIFE_LONG
+
+3) whint_mode=fs-based. F2FS passes down hints with its policy.
+
+User F2FS Block
+---- ---- -----
+ META WRITE_LIFE_MEDIUM;
+ HOT_NODE WRITE_LIFE_NOT_SET
+ WARM_NODE "
+ COLD_NODE WRITE_LIFE_NONE
+ioctl(COLD) COLD_DATA WRITE_LIFE_EXTREME
+extension list " "
+
+-- buffered io
+WRITE_LIFE_EXTREME COLD_DATA WRITE_LIFE_EXTREME
+WRITE_LIFE_SHORT HOT_DATA WRITE_LIFE_SHORT
+WRITE_LIFE_NOT_SET WARM_DATA WRITE_LIFE_LONG
+WRITE_LIFE_NONE " "
+WRITE_LIFE_MEDIUM " "
+WRITE_LIFE_LONG " "
+
+-- direct io
+WRITE_LIFE_EXTREME COLD_DATA WRITE_LIFE_EXTREME
+WRITE_LIFE_SHORT HOT_DATA WRITE_LIFE_SHORT
+WRITE_LIFE_NOT_SET WARM_DATA WRITE_LIFE_NOT_SET
+WRITE_LIFE_NONE " WRITE_LIFE_NONE
+WRITE_LIFE_MEDIUM " WRITE_LIFE_MEDIUM
+WRITE_LIFE_LONG " WRITE_LIFE_LONG
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt
index d3d0e3218f86..e2f2faf32f18 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt
@@ -36,18 +36,14 @@ The following mount options are supported:
iocharset= Set the NLS character set
The uid= and gid= options need a bit more explaining. They will accept a
-decimal numeric value which will be used as the default ID for that mount.
-They will also accept the string "ignore" and "forget". For files on the disk
-that are owned by nobody ( -1 ), they will instead look as if they are owned
-by the default ID. The ignore option causes the default ID to override all
-IDs on the disk, not just -1. The forget option causes all IDs to be written
-to disk as -1, so when the media is later remounted, they will appear to be
-owned by whatever default ID it is mounted with at that time.
+decimal numeric value and all inodes on that mount will then appear as
+belonging to that uid and gid. Mount options also accept the string "forget".
+The forget option causes all IDs to be written to disk as -1 which is a way
+of UDF standard to indicate that IDs are not supported for these files .
-For typical desktop use of removable media, you should set the ID to that
-of the interactively logged on user, and also specify both the forget and
-ignore options. This way the interactive user will always see the files
-on the disk as belonging to him.
+For typical desktop use of removable media, you should set the ID to that of
+the interactively logged on user, and also specify the forget option. This way
+the interactive user will always see the files on the disk as belonging to him.
The remaining are for debugging and disaster recovery:
@@ -57,16 +53,8 @@ The following expect a offset from 0.
session= Set the CDROM session (default= last session)
anchor= Override standard anchor location. (default= 256)
- volume= Override the VolumeDesc location. (unused)
- partition= Override the PartitionDesc location. (unused)
lastblock= Set the last block of the filesystem/
-The following expect a offset from the partition root.
-
- fileset= Override the fileset block location. (unused)
- rootdir= Override the root directory location. (unused)
- WARNING: overriding the rootdir to a non-directory may
- yield highly unpredictable results.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------