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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt index b102b436563e..ecccb51c7279 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt @@ -102,14 +102,16 @@ background_gc=%s Turn on/off cleaning operations, namely garbage collection, triggered in background when I/O subsystem is idle. If background_gc=on, it will turn on the garbage collection and if background_gc=off, garbage collection - will be truned off. If background_gc=sync, it will turn + will be turned off. If background_gc=sync, it will turn on synchronous garbage collection running in background. Default value for this option is on. So garbage collection is on by default. disable_roll_forward Disable the roll-forward recovery routine norecovery Disable the roll-forward recovery routine, mounted read- only (i.e., -o ro,disable_roll_forward) -discard Issue discard/TRIM commands when a segment is cleaned. +discard/nodiscard Enable/disable real-time discard in f2fs, if discard is + enabled, f2fs will issue discard/TRIM commands when a + segment is cleaned. no_heap Disable heap-style segment allocation which finds free segments for data from the beginning of main area, while for node from the end of main area. @@ -123,12 +125,14 @@ active_logs=%u Support configuring the number of active logs. In the disable_ext_identify Disable the extension list configured by mkfs, so f2fs does not aware of cold files such as media files. inline_xattr Enable the inline xattrs feature. +noinline_xattr Disable the inline xattrs feature. inline_data Enable the inline data feature: New created small(<~3.4k) files can be written into inode block. inline_dentry Enable the inline dir feature: data in new created directory entries can be written into inode block. The space of inode block which is used to store inline dentries is limited to ~3.4k. +noinline_dentry Diable the inline dentry feature. flush_merge Merge concurrent cache_flush commands as much as possible to eliminate redundant command issues. If the underlying device handles the cache_flush command relatively slowly, @@ -145,10 +149,48 @@ extent_cache Enable an extent cache based on rb-tree, it can cache as many as extent which map between contiguous logical address and physical address per inode, resulting in increasing the cache hit ratio. Set by default. -noextent_cache Diable an extent cache based on rb-tree explicitly, see +noextent_cache Disable an extent cache based on rb-tree explicitly, see the above extent_cache mount option. noinline_data Disable the inline data feature, inline data feature is enabled by default. +data_flush Enable data flushing before checkpoint in order to + persist data of regular and symlink. +mode=%s Control block allocation mode which supports "adaptive" + and "lfs". In "lfs" mode, there should be no random + writes towards main area. +io_bits=%u Set the bit size of write IO requests. It should be set + with "mode=lfs". +usrquota Enable plain user disk quota accounting. +grpquota Enable plain group disk quota accounting. +prjquota Enable plain project quota accounting. +usrjquota=<file> Appoint specified file and type during mount, so that quota +grpjquota=<file> information can be properly updated during recovery flow, +prjjquota=<file> <quota file>: must be in root directory; +jqfmt=<quota type> <quota type>: [vfsold,vfsv0,vfsv1]. +offusrjquota Turn off user journelled quota. +offgrpjquota Turn off group journelled quota. +offprjjquota Turn off project journelled quota. +quota Enable plain user disk quota accounting. +noquota Disable all plain disk quota option. +whint_mode=%s Control which write hints are passed down to block + layer. This supports "off", "user-based", and + "fs-based". In "off" mode (default), f2fs does not pass + down hints. In "user-based" mode, f2fs tries to pass + down hints given by users. And in "fs-based" mode, f2fs + passes down hints with its policy. +alloc_mode=%s Adjust block allocation policy, which supports "reuse" + and "default". +fsync_mode=%s Control the policy of fsync. Currently supports "posix", + "strict", and "nobarrier". In "posix" mode, which is + default, fsync will follow POSIX semantics and does a + light operation to improve the filesystem performance. + In "strict" mode, fsync will be heavy and behaves in line + with xfs, ext4 and btrfs, where xfstest generic/342 will + pass, but the performance will regress. "nobarrier" is + based on "posix", but doesn't issue flush command for + non-atomic files likewise "nobarrier" mount option. +test_dummy_encryption Enable dummy encryption, which provides a fake fscrypt + context. The fake fscrypt context is used by xfstests. ================================================================================ DEBUGFS ENTRIES @@ -192,7 +234,16 @@ Files in /sys/fs/f2fs/<devname> policy for garbage collection. Setting gc_idle = 0 (default) will disable this option. Setting gc_idle = 1 will select the Cost Benefit approach - & setting gc_idle = 2 will select the greedy aproach. + & setting gc_idle = 2 will select the greedy approach. + + gc_urgent This parameter controls triggering background GCs + urgently or not. Setting gc_urgent = 0 [default] + makes back to default behavior, while if it is set + to 1, background thread starts to do GC by given + gc_urgent_sleep_time interval. + + gc_urgent_sleep_time This parameter controls sleep time for gc_urgent. + 500 ms is set by default. See above gc_urgent. reclaim_segments This parameter controls the number of prefree segments to be reclaimed. If the number of prefree @@ -298,7 +349,7 @@ The dump.f2fs shows the information of specific inode and dumps SSA and SIT to file. Each file is dump_ssa and dump_sit. The dump.f2fs is used to debug on-disk data structures of the f2fs filesystem. -It shows on-disk inode information reconized by a given inode number, and is +It shows on-disk inode information recognized by a given inode number, and is able to dump all the SSA and SIT entries into predefined files, ./dump_ssa and ./dump_sit respectively. |