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authorJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>2007-09-25 02:52:09 +0400
committerJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>2007-10-10 02:32:45 +0400
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downloadlinux-4f3b19ca41fbe572e3d44caf516c215b286fe2a6.tar.xz
Documentation: move mandatory locking documentation to filesystems/
Shouldn't this mandatory-locking documentation be in the Documentation/filesystems directory? Give it a more descriptive name while we're at it, and update 00-INDEX with a more inclusive description of Documentation/filesystems (which has already talked about more than just individual filesystems). Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/00-INDEX4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/mandatory-locking.txt (renamed from Documentation/mandatory.txt)0
-rw-r--r--Documentation/locks.txt10
4 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/00-INDEX b/Documentation/00-INDEX
index 43e89b1537d9..910473cb1c1c 100644
--- a/Documentation/00-INDEX
+++ b/Documentation/00-INDEX
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ fb/
feature-removal-schedule.txt
- list of files and features that are going to be removed.
filesystems/
- - directory with info on the various filesystems that Linux supports.
+ - info on the vfs and the various filesystems that Linux supports.
firmware_class/
- request_firmware() hotplug interface info.
floppy.txt
@@ -240,8 +240,6 @@ m68k/
- directory with info about Linux on Motorola 68k architecture.
magic-number.txt
- list of magic numbers used to mark/protect kernel data structures.
-mandatory.txt
- - info on the Linux implementation of Sys V mandatory file locking.
mca.txt
- info on supporting Micro Channel Architecture (e.g. PS/2) systems.
md.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX b/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX
index 59db1bca7027..e801076812a4 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ isofs.txt
- info and mount options for the ISO 9660 (CDROM) filesystem.
jfs.txt
- info and mount options for the JFS filesystem.
+mandatory-locking.txt
+ - info on the Linux implementation of Sys V mandatory file locking.
ncpfs.txt
- info on Novell Netware(tm) filesystem using NCP protocol.
ntfs.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/mandatory.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/mandatory-locking.txt
index bc449d49eee5..bc449d49eee5 100644
--- a/Documentation/mandatory.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/mandatory-locking.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/locks.txt b/Documentation/locks.txt
index e3b402ef33bd..fab857accbd6 100644
--- a/Documentation/locks.txt
+++ b/Documentation/locks.txt
@@ -53,11 +53,11 @@ fcntl(), with all the problems that implies.
1.3 Mandatory Locking As A Mount Option
---------------------------------------
-Mandatory locking, as described in 'Documentation/mandatory.txt' was prior
-to this release a general configuration option that was valid for all
-mounted filesystems. This had a number of inherent dangers, not the least
-of which was the ability to freeze an NFS server by asking it to read a
-file for which a mandatory lock existed.
+Mandatory locking, as described in 'Documentation/filesystems/mandatory.txt'
+was prior to this release a general configuration option that was valid for
+all mounted filesystems. This had a number of inherent dangers, not the
+least of which was the ability to freeze an NFS server by asking it to read
+a file for which a mandatory lock existed.
From this release of the kernel, mandatory locking can be turned on and off
on a per-filesystem basis, using the mount options 'mand' and 'nomand'.