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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-fscache: (41 commits)
NFS: Add mount options to enable local caching on NFS
NFS: Display local caching state
NFS: Store pages from an NFS inode into a local cache
NFS: Read pages from FS-Cache into an NFS inode
NFS: nfs_readpage_async() needs to be accessible as a fallback for local caching
NFS: Add read context retention for FS-Cache to call back with
NFS: FS-Cache page management
NFS: Add some new I/O counters for FS-Cache doing things for NFS
NFS: Invalidate FsCache page flags when cache removed
NFS: Use local disk inode cache
NFS: Define and create inode-level cache objects
NFS: Define and create superblock-level objects
NFS: Define and create server-level objects
NFS: Register NFS for caching and retrieve the top-level index
NFS: Permit local filesystem caching to be enabled for NFS
NFS: Add FS-Cache option bit and debug bit
NFS: Add comment banners to some NFS functions
FS-Cache: Make kAFS use FS-Cache
CacheFiles: A cache that backs onto a mounted filesystem
CacheFiles: Export things for CacheFiles
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Add an FS-Cache cache-backend that permits a mounted filesystem to be used as a
backing store for the cache.
CacheFiles uses a userspace daemon to do some of the cache management - such as
reaping stale nodes and culling. This is called cachefilesd and lives in
/sbin. The source for the daemon can be downloaded from:
http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/cachefs/cachefilesd.c
And an example configuration from:
http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/cachefs/cachefilesd.conf
The filesystem and data integrity of the cache are only as good as those of the
filesystem providing the backing services. Note that CacheFiles does not
attempt to journal anything since the journalling interfaces of the various
filesystems are very specific in nature.
CacheFiles creates a misc character device - "/dev/cachefiles" - that is used
to communication with the daemon. Only one thing may have this open at once,
and whilst it is open, a cache is at least partially in existence. The daemon
opens this and sends commands down it to control the cache.
CacheFiles is currently limited to a single cache.
CacheFiles attempts to maintain at least a certain percentage of free space on
the filesystem, shrinking the cache by culling the objects it contains to make
space if necessary - see the "Cache Culling" section. This means it can be
placed on the same medium as a live set of data, and will expand to make use of
spare space and automatically contract when the set of data requires more
space.
============
REQUIREMENTS
============
The use of CacheFiles and its daemon requires the following features to be
available in the system and in the cache filesystem:
- dnotify.
- extended attributes (xattrs).
- openat() and friends.
- bmap() support on files in the filesystem (FIBMAP ioctl).
- The use of bmap() to detect a partial page at the end of the file.
It is strongly recommended that the "dir_index" option is enabled on Ext3
filesystems being used as a cache.
=============
CONFIGURATION
=============
The cache is configured by a script in /etc/cachefilesd.conf. These commands
set up cache ready for use. The following script commands are available:
(*) brun <N>%
(*) bcull <N>%
(*) bstop <N>%
(*) frun <N>%
(*) fcull <N>%
(*) fstop <N>%
Configure the culling limits. Optional. See the section on culling
The defaults are 7% (run), 5% (cull) and 1% (stop) respectively.
The commands beginning with a 'b' are file space (block) limits, those
beginning with an 'f' are file count limits.
(*) dir <path>
Specify the directory containing the root of the cache. Mandatory.
(*) tag <name>
Specify a tag to FS-Cache to use in distinguishing multiple caches.
Optional. The default is "CacheFiles".
(*) debug <mask>
Specify a numeric bitmask to control debugging in the kernel module.
Optional. The default is zero (all off). The following values can be
OR'd into the mask to collect various information:
1 Turn on trace of function entry (_enter() macros)
2 Turn on trace of function exit (_leave() macros)
4 Turn on trace of internal debug points (_debug())
This mask can also be set through sysfs, eg:
echo 5 >/sys/modules/cachefiles/parameters/debug
==================
STARTING THE CACHE
==================
The cache is started by running the daemon. The daemon opens the cache device,
configures the cache and tells it to begin caching. At that point the cache
binds to fscache and the cache becomes live.
The daemon is run as follows:
/sbin/cachefilesd [-d]* [-s] [-n] [-f <configfile>]
The flags are:
(*) -d
Increase the debugging level. This can be specified multiple times and
is cumulative with itself.
(*) -s
Send messages to stderr instead of syslog.
(*) -n
Don't daemonise and go into background.
(*) -f <configfile>
Use an alternative configuration file rather than the default one.
===============
THINGS TO AVOID
===============
Do not mount other things within the cache as this will cause problems. The
kernel module contains its own very cut-down path walking facility that ignores
mountpoints, but the daemon can't avoid them.
Do not create, rename or unlink files and directories in the cache whilst the
cache is active, as this may cause the state to become uncertain.
Renaming files in the cache might make objects appear to be other objects (the
filename is part of the lookup key).
Do not change or remove the extended attributes attached to cache files by the
cache as this will cause the cache state management to get confused.
Do not create files or directories in the cache, lest the cache get confused or
serve incorrect data.
Do not chmod files in the cache. The module creates things with minimal
permissions to prevent random users being able to access them directly.
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CACHE CULLING
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The cache may need culling occasionally to make space. This involves
discarding objects from the cache that have been used less recently than
anything else. Culling is based on the access time of data objects. Empty
directories are culled if not in use.
Cache culling is done on the basis of the percentage of blocks and the
percentage of files available in the underlying filesystem. There are six
"limits":
(*) brun
(*) frun
If the amount of free space and the number of available files in the cache
rises above both these limits, then culling is turned off.
(*) bcull
(*) fcull
If the amount of available space or the number of available files in the
cache falls below either of these limits, then culling is started.
(*) bstop
(*) fstop
If the amount of available space or the number of available files in the
cache falls below either of these limits, then no further allocation of
disk space or files is permitted until culling has raised things above
these limits again.
These must be configured thusly:
0 <= bstop < bcull < brun < 100
0 <= fstop < fcull < frun < 100
Note that these are percentages of available space and available files, and do
_not_ appear as 100 minus the percentage displayed by the "df" program.
The userspace daemon scans the cache to build up a table of cullable objects.
These are then culled in least recently used order. A new scan of the cache is
started as soon as space is made in the table. Objects will be skipped if
their atimes have changed or if the kernel module says it is still using them.
===============
CACHE STRUCTURE
===============
The CacheFiles module will create two directories in the directory it was
given:
(*) cache/
(*) graveyard/
The active cache objects all reside in the first directory. The CacheFiles
kernel module moves any retired or culled objects that it can't simply unlink
to the graveyard from which the daemon will actually delete them.
The daemon uses dnotify to monitor the graveyard directory, and will delete
anything that appears therein.
The module represents index objects as directories with the filename "I..." or
"J...". Note that the "cache/" directory is itself a special index.
Data objects are represented as files if they have no children, or directories
if they do. Their filenames all begin "D..." or "E...". If represented as a
directory, data objects will have a file in the directory called "data" that
actually holds the data.
Special objects are similar to data objects, except their filenames begin
"S..." or "T...".
If an object has children, then it will be represented as a directory.
Immediately in the representative directory are a collection of directories
named for hash values of the child object keys with an '@' prepended. Into
this directory, if possible, will be placed the representations of the child
objects:
INDEX INDEX INDEX DATA FILES
========= ========== ================================= ================
cache/@4a/I03nfs/@30/Ji000000000000000--fHg8hi8400
cache/@4a/I03nfs/@30/Ji000000000000000--fHg8hi8400/@75/Es0g000w...DB1ry
cache/@4a/I03nfs/@30/Ji000000000000000--fHg8hi8400/@75/Es0g000w...N22ry
cache/@4a/I03nfs/@30/Ji000000000000000--fHg8hi8400/@75/Es0g000w...FP1ry
If the key is so long that it exceeds NAME_MAX with the decorations added on to
it, then it will be cut into pieces, the first few of which will be used to
make a nest of directories, and the last one of which will be the objects
inside the last directory. The names of the intermediate directories will have
'+' prepended:
J1223/@23/+xy...z/+kl...m/Epqr
Note that keys are raw data, and not only may they exceed NAME_MAX in size,
they may also contain things like '/' and NUL characters, and so they may not
be suitable for turning directly into a filename.
To handle this, CacheFiles will use a suitably printable filename directly and
"base-64" encode ones that aren't directly suitable. The two versions of
object filenames indicate the encoding:
OBJECT TYPE PRINTABLE ENCODED
=============== =============== ===============
Index "I..." "J..."
Data "D..." "E..."
Special "S..." "T..."
Intermediate directories are always "@" or "+" as appropriate.
Each object in the cache has an extended attribute label that holds the object
type ID (required to distinguish special objects) and the auxiliary data from
the netfs. The latter is used to detect stale objects in the cache and update
or retire them.
Note that CacheFiles will erase from the cache any file it doesn't recognise or
any file of an incorrect type (such as a FIFO file or a device file).
==========================
SECURITY MODEL AND SELINUX
==========================
CacheFiles is implemented to deal properly with the LSM security features of
the Linux kernel and the SELinux facility.
One of the problems that CacheFiles faces is that it is generally acting on
behalf of a process, and running in that process's context, and that includes a
security context that is not appropriate for accessing the cache - either
because the files in the cache are inaccessible to that process, or because if
the process creates a file in the cache, that file may be inaccessible to other
processes.
The way CacheFiles works is to temporarily change the security context (fsuid,
fsgid and actor security label) that the process acts as - without changing the
security context of the process when it the target of an operation performed by
some other process (so signalling and suchlike still work correctly).
When the CacheFiles module is asked to bind to its cache, it:
(1) Finds the security label attached to the root cache directory and uses
that as the security label with which it will create files. By default,
this is:
cachefiles_var_t
(2) Finds the security label of the process which issued the bind request
(presumed to be the cachefilesd daemon), which by default will be:
cachefilesd_t
and asks LSM to supply a security ID as which it should act given the
daemon's label. By default, this will be:
cachefiles_kernel_t
SELinux transitions the daemon's security ID to the module's security ID
based on a rule of this form in the policy.
type_transition <daemon's-ID> kernel_t : process <module's-ID>;
For instance:
type_transition cachefilesd_t kernel_t : process cachefiles_kernel_t;
The module's security ID gives it permission to create, move and remove files
and directories in the cache, to find and access directories and files in the
cache, to set and access extended attributes on cache objects, and to read and
write files in the cache.
The daemon's security ID gives it only a very restricted set of permissions: it
may scan directories, stat files and erase files and directories. It may
not read or write files in the cache, and so it is precluded from accessing the
data cached therein; nor is it permitted to create new files in the cache.
There are policy source files available in:
http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/fscache/cachefilesd-0.8.tar.bz2
and later versions. In that tarball, see the files:
cachefilesd.te
cachefilesd.fc
cachefilesd.if
They are built and installed directly by the RPM.
If a non-RPM based system is being used, then copy the above files to their own
directory and run:
make -f /usr/share/selinux/devel/Makefile
semodule -i cachefilesd.pp
You will need checkpolicy and selinux-policy-devel installed prior to the
build.
By default, the cache is located in /var/fscache, but if it is desirable that
it should be elsewhere, than either the above policy files must be altered, or
an auxiliary policy must be installed to label the alternate location of the
cache.
For instructions on how to add an auxiliary policy to enable the cache to be
located elsewhere when SELinux is in enforcing mode, please see:
/usr/share/doc/cachefilesd-*/move-cache.txt
When the cachefilesd rpm is installed; alternatively, the document can be found
in the sources.
==================
A NOTE ON SECURITY
==================
CacheFiles makes use of the split security in the task_struct. It allocates
its own task_security structure, and redirects current->act_as to point to it
when it acts on behalf of another process, in that process's context.
The reason it does this is that it calls vfs_mkdir() and suchlike rather than
bypassing security and calling inode ops directly. Therefore the VFS and LSM
may deny the CacheFiles access to the cache data because under some
circumstances the caching code is running in the security context of whatever
process issued the original syscall on the netfs.
Furthermore, should CacheFiles create a file or directory, the security
parameters with that object is created (UID, GID, security label) would be
derived from that process that issued the system call, thus potentially
preventing other processes from accessing the cache - including CacheFiles's
cache management daemon (cachefilesd).
What is required is to temporarily override the security of the process that
issued the system call. We can't, however, just do an in-place change of the
security data as that affects the process as an object, not just as a subject.
This means it may lose signals or ptrace events for example, and affects what
the process looks like in /proc.
So CacheFiles makes use of a logical split in the security between the
objective security (task->sec) and the subjective security (task->act_as). The
objective security holds the intrinsic security properties of a process and is
never overridden. This is what appears in /proc, and is what is used when a
process is the target of an operation by some other process (SIGKILL for
example).
The subjective security holds the active security properties of a process, and
may be overridden. This is not seen externally, and is used whan a process
acts upon another object, for example SIGKILLing another process or opening a
file.
LSM hooks exist that allow SELinux (or Smack or whatever) to reject a request
for CacheFiles to run in a context of a specific security label, or to create
files and directories with another security label.
This documentation is added by the patch to:
Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
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Add the main configuration option, allowing FS-Cache to be selected; the
module entry and exit functions and the debugging stuff used by these patches.
The two configuration options added are:
CONFIG_FSCACHE
CONFIG_FSCACHE_DEBUG
The first enables the facility, and the second makes the debugging statements
enableable through the "debug" module parameter. The value of this parameter
is a bitmask as described in:
Documentation/filesystems/caching/fscache.txt
The module can be loaded at this point, but all it will do at this point in
the patch series is to start up the slow work facility and shut it down again.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
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- Add exofs to fs/Kconfig under "menu 'Miscellaneous filesystems'"
- Add exofs to fs/Makefile
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
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Quota subsystem has more and more files. It's time to create a dir for it.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pkl/squashfs-linus:
MAINTAINERS: squashfs entry
Squashfs: documentation
Squashfs: initrd support
Squashfs: Kconfig entry
Squashfs: Makefiles
Squashfs: header files
Squashfs: block operations
Squashfs: cache operations
Squashfs: uid/gid lookup operations
Squashfs: fragment block operations
Squashfs: export operations
Squashfs: super block operations
Squashfs: symlink operations
Squashfs: regular file operations
Squashfs: directory readdir operations
Squashfs: directory lookup operations
Squashfs: inode operations
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable: (864 commits)
Btrfs: explicitly mark the tree log root for writeback
Btrfs: Drop the hardware crc32c asm code
Btrfs: Add Documentation/filesystem/btrfs.txt, remove old COPYING
Btrfs: kmap_atomic(KM_USER0) is safe for btrfs_readpage_end_io_hook
Btrfs: Don't use kmap_atomic(..., KM_IRQ0) during checksum verifies
Btrfs: tree logging checksum fixes
Btrfs: don't change file extent's ram_bytes in btrfs_drop_extents
Btrfs: Use btrfs_join_transaction to avoid deadlocks during snapshot creation
Btrfs: drop remaining LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION checks and compat code
Btrfs: drop EXPORT symbols from extent_io.c
Btrfs: Fix checkpatch.pl warnings
Btrfs: Fix free block discard calls down to the block layer
Btrfs: avoid orphan inode caused by log replay
Btrfs: avoid potential super block corruption
Btrfs: do not call kfree if kmalloc failed in btrfs_sysfs_add_super
Btrfs: fix a memory leak in btrfs_get_sb
Btrfs: Fix typo in clear_state_cb
Btrfs: Fix memset length in btrfs_file_write
Btrfs: update directory's size when creating subvol/snapshot
Btrfs: add permission checks to the ioctls
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Have one option to control Miscellaneous filesystems. This makes it easy
to disable all of them at one time.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
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There is going to be a new version of quota format having 64-bit
quota limits and a new quota format for OCFS2. They are both
going to use the same tree structure as VFSv0 quota format. So
split out tree handling into a separate file and make size of
leaf blocks, amount of space usable in each block (needed for
checksumming) and structures contained in them configurable
so that the code can be shared.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
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JBD2 is fully backwards compatible with JBD and it's been tested enough with
Ocfs2 that we can clean this code up now.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
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This patch adds the Kconfig option "CONFIG_OCFS2_FS_POSIX_ACL"
and mount options "acl" to enable acls in Ocfs2.
Signed-off-by: Tiger Yang <tiger.yang@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
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Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
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Creating a generic filesystem notification interface, fsnotify, which will be
used by inotify, dnotify, and eventually fanotify is really starting to
clutter the fs directory. This patch simply moves inotify and dnotify into
fs/notify/inotify and fs/notify/dnotify respectively to make both current fs/
and future notification tidier.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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