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GFS2: Update docs
Update a few things which were out of date, and fix a typo. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-glocks.txt
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| 60 | 60 | go_unlock | Called on the final local unlock of a lock |
| 61 | 61 | go_dump | Called to print content of object for debugfs file, or on |
| 62 | 62 | | error to dump glock to the log. |
| 63 | -go_type; | The type of the glock, LM_TYPE_..... | |
| 63 | +go_type | The type of the glock, LM_TYPE_..... | |
| 64 | 64 | go_min_hold_time | The minimum hold time |
| 65 | 65 | |
| 66 | 66 | The minimum hold time for each lock is the time after a remote lock |
Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt
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| 11 | 11 | features of GFS is perfect consistency -- changes made to the file system |
| 12 | 12 | on one machine show up immediately on all other machines in the cluster. |
| 13 | 13 | |
| 14 | -GFS uses interchangable inter-node locking mechanisms. Different lock | |
| 15 | -modules can plug into GFS and each file system selects the appropriate | |
| 16 | -lock module at mount time. Lock modules include: | |
| 14 | +GFS uses interchangable inter-node locking mechanisms, the currently | |
| 15 | +supported mechanisms are: | |
| 17 | 16 | |
| 18 | 17 | lock_nolock -- allows gfs to be used as a local file system |
| 19 | 18 | |
| 20 | 19 | lock_dlm -- uses a distributed lock manager (dlm) for inter-node locking |
| 21 | 20 | The dlm is found at linux/fs/dlm/ |
| 22 | 21 | |
| 23 | -In addition to interfacing with an external locking manager, a gfs lock | |
| 24 | -module is responsible for interacting with external cluster management | |
| 25 | -systems. Lock_dlm depends on user space cluster management systems found | |
| 22 | +Lock_dlm depends on user space cluster management systems found | |
| 26 | 23 | at the URL above. |
| 27 | 24 | |
| 28 | 25 | To use gfs as a local file system, no external clustering systems are |
| 29 | 26 | |
| 30 | 27 | |
| 31 | 28 | |
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| 31 | 28 | $ mkfs -t gfs2 -p lock_nolock -j 1 /dev/block_device |
| 32 | 29 | $ mount -t gfs2 /dev/block_device /dir |
| 33 | 30 | |
| 34 | -GFS2 is not on-disk compatible with previous versions of GFS. | |
| 31 | +If you are using Fedora, you need to install the gfs2-utils package | |
| 32 | +and, for lock_dlm, you will also need to install the cman package | |
| 33 | +and write a cluster.conf as per the documentation. | |
| 35 | 34 | |
| 35 | +GFS2 is not on-disk compatible with previous versions of GFS, but it | |
| 36 | +is pretty close. | |
| 37 | + | |
| 36 | 38 | The following man pages can be found at the URL above: |
| 37 | - gfs2_fsck to repair a filesystem | |
| 39 | + fsck.gfs2 to repair a filesystem | |
| 38 | 40 | gfs2_grow to expand a filesystem online |
| 39 | 41 | gfs2_jadd to add journals to a filesystem online |
| 40 | 42 | gfs2_tool to manipulate, examine and tune a filesystem |
| 41 | 43 | gfs2_quota to examine and change quota values in a filesystem |
| 44 | + gfs2_convert to convert a gfs filesystem to gfs2 in-place | |
| 42 | 45 | mount.gfs2 to help mount(8) mount a filesystem |
| 43 | 46 | mkfs.gfs2 to make a filesystem |