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| author | Tino Reichardt <milky-kernel@mcmilk.de> | 2012-09-17 20:58:19 +0400 |
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| committer | Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com> | 2012-09-17 20:58:19 +0400 |
| commit | b40c2e665cd552eae5fbdbb878bc29a34357668e (patch) | |
| tree | 23714e5773a77abf1daf71ca7958dcd8dfa688ea /Documentation/filesystems/jfs.txt | |
| parent | fbcbe2b3c92ee1c930dcfcf8bb764074c100fd63 (diff) | |
| download | linux-b40c2e665cd552eae5fbdbb878bc29a34357668e.tar.xz | |
fs/jfs: TRIM support for JFS Filesystem
This patch adds support for the two linux interfaces of the discard/TRIM
command for SSD devices and sparse/thinly-provisioned LUNs.
JFS will support batched discard via FITRIM ioctl and online discard
with the discard mount option.
Signed-off-by: Tino Reichardt <list-jfs@mcmilk.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/jfs.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/jfs.txt | 19 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/jfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/jfs.txt index 26ebde77e821..2f94f9ca1794 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/jfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/jfs.txt @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ IBM's Journaled File System (JFS) for Linux JFS Homepage: http://jfs.sourceforge.net/ The following mount options are supported: +(*) == default iocharset=name Character set to use for converting from Unicode to ASCII. The default is to do no conversion. Use @@ -21,12 +22,12 @@ nointegrity Do not write to the journal. The primary use of this option from backup media. The integrity of the volume is not guaranteed if the system abnormally abends. -integrity Default. Commit metadata changes to the journal. Use this - option to remount a volume where the nointegrity option was +integrity(*) Commit metadata changes to the journal. Use this option to + remount a volume where the nointegrity option was previously specified in order to restore normal behavior. errors=continue Keep going on a filesystem error. -errors=remount-ro Default. Remount the filesystem read-only on an error. +errors=remount-ro(*) Remount the filesystem read-only on an error. errors=panic Panic and halt the machine if an error occurs. uid=value Override on-disk uid with specified value @@ -35,6 +36,18 @@ umask=value Override on-disk umask with specified octal value. For directories, the execute bit will be set if the corresponding read bit is set. +discard=minlen This enables/disables the use of discard/TRIM commands. +discard The discard/TRIM commands are sent to the underlying +nodiscard(*) block device when blocks are freed. This is useful for SSD + devices and sparse/thinly-provisioned LUNs. The FITRIM ioctl + command is also available together with the nodiscard option. + The value of minlen specifies the minimum blockcount, when + a TRIM command to the block device is considered usefull. + When no value is given to the discard option, it defaults to + 64 blocks, which means 256KiB in JFS. + The minlen value of discard overrides the minlen value given + on an FITRIM ioctl(). + Please send bugs, comments, cards and letters to shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com. The JFS mailing list can be subscribed to by using the link labeled |