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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.rst (renamed from Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt) | 20 | ||||
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.rst index cc4f2306609e..8d1ab589ce18 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.rst @@ -1,5 +1,8 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +================== Global File System ------------------- +================== https://fedorahosted.org/cluster/wiki/HomePage @@ -14,16 +17,18 @@ on one machine show up immediately on all other machines in the cluster. GFS uses interchangeable inter-node locking mechanisms, the currently supported mechanisms are: - lock_nolock -- allows gfs to be used as a local file system + lock_nolock + - allows gfs to be used as a local file system - lock_dlm -- uses a distributed lock manager (dlm) for inter-node locking - The dlm is found at linux/fs/dlm/ + lock_dlm + - uses a distributed lock manager (dlm) for inter-node locking. + The dlm is found at linux/fs/dlm/ Lock_dlm depends on user space cluster management systems found at the URL above. To use gfs as a local file system, no external clustering systems are -needed, simply: +needed, simply:: $ mkfs -t gfs2 -p lock_nolock -j 1 /dev/block_device $ mount -t gfs2 /dev/block_device /dir @@ -37,9 +42,12 @@ GFS2 is not on-disk compatible with previous versions of GFS, but it is pretty close. The following man pages can be found at the URL above: + + ============ ============================================= fsck.gfs2 to repair a filesystem gfs2_grow to expand a filesystem online gfs2_jadd to add journals to a filesystem online tunegfs2 to manipulate, examine and tune a filesystem - gfs2_convert to convert a gfs filesystem to gfs2 in-place + gfs2_convert to convert a gfs filesystem to gfs2 in-place mkfs.gfs2 to make a filesystem + ============ ============================================= diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst index f69d20406be0..f24befe78326 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst @@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ Documentation for filesystem implementations. ext2 ext3 f2fs + gfs2 fuse overlayfs virtiofs |