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Make it possible to disable the block layer. Not all embedded devices require
it, some can make do with just JFFS2, NFS, ramfs, etc - none of which require
the block layer to be present.
This patch does the following:
(*) Introduces CONFIG_BLOCK to disable the block layer, buffering and blockdev
support.
(*) Adds dependencies on CONFIG_BLOCK to any configuration item that controls
an item that uses the block layer. This includes:
(*) Block I/O tracing.
(*) Disk partition code.
(*) All filesystems that are block based, eg: Ext3, ReiserFS, ISOFS.
(*) The SCSI layer. As far as I can tell, even SCSI chardevs use the
block layer to do scheduling. Some drivers that use SCSI facilities -
such as USB storage - end up disabled indirectly from this.
(*) Various block-based device drivers, such as IDE and the old CDROM
drivers.
(*) MTD blockdev handling and FTL.
(*) JFFS - which uses set_bdev_super(), something it could avoid doing by
taking a leaf out of JFFS2's book.
(*) Makes most of the contents of linux/blkdev.h, linux/buffer_head.h and
linux/elevator.h contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK being set. sector_div() is,
however, still used in places, and so is still available.
(*) Also made contingent are the contents of linux/mpage.h, linux/genhd.h and
parts of linux/fs.h.
(*) Makes a number of files in fs/ contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.
(*) Makes mm/bounce.c (bounce buffering) contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.
(*) set_page_dirty() doesn't call __set_page_dirty_buffers() if CONFIG_BLOCK
is not enabled.
(*) fs/no-block.c is created to hold out-of-line stubs and things that are
required when CONFIG_BLOCK is not set:
(*) Default blockdev file operations (to give error ENODEV on opening).
(*) Makes some /proc changes:
(*) /proc/devices does not list any blockdevs.
(*) /proc/diskstats and /proc/partitions are contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.
(*) Makes some compat ioctl handling contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.
(*) If CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined, makes sys_quotactl() return -ENODEV if
given command other than Q_SYNC or if a special device is specified.
(*) In init/do_mounts.c, no reference is made to the blockdev routines if
CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined. This does not prohibit NFS roots or JFFS2.
(*) The bdflush, ioprio_set and ioprio_get syscalls can now be absent (return
error ENOSYS by way of cond_syscall if so).
(*) The seclvl_bd_claim() and seclvl_bd_release() security calls do nothing if
CONFIG_BLOCK is not set, since they can't then happen.
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Add access control lists for tmpfs.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The patches solve the following problem: We want to grant access to devices
based on who is logged in from where, etc. This includes switching back and
forth between multiple user sessions, etc.
Using ACLs to define device access for logged-in users gives us all the
flexibility we need in order to fully solve the problem.
Device special files nowadays usually live on tmpfs, hence tmpfs ACLs.
Different distros have come up with solutions that solve the problem to
different degrees: SUSE uses a resource manager which tracks login sessions
and sets ACLs on device inodes as appropriate. RedHat uses pam_console, which
changes the primary file ownership to the logged-in user. Others use a set of
groups that users must be in in order to be granted the appropriate accesses.
The freedesktop.org project plans to implement a combination of a
console-tracker and a HAL-device-list based solution to grant access to
devices to users, and more distros will likely follow this approach.
These patches have first been posted here on 2 February 2005, and again
on 8 January 2006. We have been shipping them in SLES9 and SLES10 with
no problems reported. The previous submission is archived here:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/8/229
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/8/230
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/8/231
This patch:
Add some infrastructure for access control lists on in-memory
filesystems such as tmpfs.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Since sys_sysctl is deprecated start allow it to be compiled out. This
should catch any remaining user space code that cares, and paves the way
for further sysctl cleanups.
[akpm@osdl.org: If sys_sysctl() is not compiled-in, emit a warning]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Remove the EXPERIMENTAL flag from the NFS_DIRECTIO option.
Test plan:
Unset the EXPERIMENTAL kernel build option and check to see that the NFS
direct I/O option is still available.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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Things have been working pretty well for a while now.
We should've probably done this at least one kernel
revision ago, but it doesn't hurt to be paranoid.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
[CIFS] CIFS_DEBUG2 depends on CIFS
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Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
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Give gcc the chance to compile out the debug logging code in ocfs2.
This saves some size at the expense of being able to debug the code.
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
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* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6:
[MTD] NAND: Select chip before checking write protect status
[MTD] CORE mtdchar.c: fix off-by-one error in lseek()
[MTD] NAND: Fix typo in mtd/nand/ts7250.c
[JFFS2][XATTR] coexistence between xattr and write buffering support.
[JFFS2][XATTR] Fix wrong copyright
[JFFS2][XATTR] Re-define xd->refcnt as atomic_t
[JFFS2][XATTR] Fix memory leak with jffs2_xattr_ref
[JFFS2][XATTR] rid unnecessary writing of delete marker.
[JFFS2][XATTR] Fix ACL bug when updating null xattr by null ACL.
[JFFS2][XATTR] using 'delete marker' for xdatum/xref deletion
[MTD] Fix off-by-one error in physmap.c
[MTD] Remove unused 'nr_banks' variable from ixp2000 map driver
[MTD NAND] s3c2412 support in s3c2410.c
[MTD] Initialize 'writesize'
[MTD] NAND: ndfc fix address offset thinko
[MTD] NAND: S3C2410 convert prinks to dev_*()s
[MTD] NAND: Missing fixups
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6: (25 commits)
[CIFS] Fix authentication choice so we do not force NTLMv2 unless the
[CIFS] Fix alignment of unicode strings in previous patch
[CIFS] Fix allocation of buffers for new session setup routine to allow
[CIFS] Remove calls to to take f_owner.lock
[CIFS] remove some redundant null pointer checks
[CIFS] Fix compile warning when CONFIG_CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL is off
[CIFS] Enable sec flags on mount for cifs (part one)
[CIFS] Fix suspend/resume problem which causes EIO on subsequent access to
[CIFS] fix minor compile warning when config_cifs_weak_security is off
[CIFS] NTLMv2 support part 5
[CIFS] Add support for readdir to legacy servers
[CIFS] NTLMv2 support part 4
[CIFS] NTLMv2 support part 3
[CIFS] NTLMv2 support part 2
[CIFS] Fix mask so can set new cifs security flags properly
CIFS] Support for older servers which require plaintext passwords - part 2
[CIFS] Support for older servers which require plaintext passwords
[CIFS] Fix mapping of old SMB return code Invalid Net Name so it is
[CIFS] Missing brace
[CIFS] Do not overwrite aops
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Drop '&& !JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER' from fs/Kconfig.
The series of previous patches enables to use those
functionality at same time.
Signed-off-by: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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I noticed recently that my CONFIG_CRYPTO_MD5 turned into a y again instead
of m. It turns out that CONFIG_NFSD_V4 is selecting it to be y even though
I've chosen to compile nfsd as a module.
In general when we have a bool sitting under a tristate it is better to
select things you need from the tristate rather than the bool since that
allows the things you select to be modules.
The following patch does it for nfsd.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Make procfs non-optional unless EMBEDDED is set, just like sysfs. procfs
is already de facto required for a large subset of Linux functionality.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Currently to turn on debug mode "user" has to edit ~10 files, to turn off he
has to do it again.
This patch introduce such changes:
1)turn on(off) debug messages via ".config"
2)remove unnecessary duplication of code
3)make "UFSD" macros more similar to function
4)fix some compiler warnings
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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To find new bugs, I suggest revert this patch:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/31/275 in -mm tree.
So others can test "write support" of UFS.
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Disable Ext2 XIP if the kernel is configured in no-MMU mode as the former
won't build.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current
* 'audit.b21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current: (25 commits)
[PATCH] make set_loginuid obey audit_enabled
[PATCH] log more info for directory entry change events
[PATCH] fix AUDIT_FILTER_PREPEND handling
[PATCH] validate rule fields' types
[PATCH] audit: path-based rules
[PATCH] Audit of POSIX Message Queue Syscalls v.2
[PATCH] fix se_sen audit filter
[PATCH] deprecate AUDIT_POSSBILE
[PATCH] inline more audit helpers
[PATCH] proc_loginuid_write() uses simple_strtoul() on non-terminated array
[PATCH] update of IPC audit record cleanup
[PATCH] minor audit updates
[PATCH] fix audit_krule_to_{rule,data} return values
[PATCH] add filtering by ppid
[PATCH] log ppid
[PATCH] collect sid of those who send signals to auditd
[PATCH] execve argument logging
[PATCH] fix deadlocks in AUDIT_LIST/AUDIT_LIST_RULES
[PATCH] audit_panic() is audit-internal
[PATCH] inotify (5/5): update kernel documentation
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Manual fixup of conflict in unclude/linux/inotify.h
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The following series of patches introduces a kernel API for inotify,
making it possible for kernel modules to benefit from inotify's
mechanism for watching inodes. With these patches, inotify will
maintain for each caller a list of watches (via an embedded struct
inotify_watch), where each inotify_watch is associated with a
corresponding struct inode. The caller registers an event handler and
specifies for which filesystem events their event handler should be
called per inotify_watch.
Signed-off-by: Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com>
Acked-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Acked-by: John McCutchan <john@johnmccutchan.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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This attached patches provide xattr support including POSIX-ACL and
SELinux support on JFFS2 (version.5).
There are some significant differences from previous version posted
at last December.
The biggest change is addition of EBS(Erase Block Summary) support.
Currently, both kernel and usermode utility (sumtool) can recognize
xattr nodes which have JFFS2_NODETYPE_XATTR/_XREF nodetype.
In addition, some bugs are fixed.
- A potential race condition was fixed.
- Unexpected fail when updating a xattr by same name/value pair was fixed.
- A bug when removing xattr name/value pair was fixed.
The fundamental structures (such as using two new nodetypes and exclusion
mechanism by rwsem) are unchanged. But most of implementation were reviewed
and updated if necessary.
Espacially, we had to change several internal implementations related to
load_xattr_datum() to avoid a potential race condition.
[1/2] xattr_on_jffs2.kernel.version-5.patch
[2/2] xattr_on_jffs2.utils.version-5.patch
Signed-off-by: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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In kernel bugzilla #6248 (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6248),
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> notes that CONFIG_HUGETLBFS is missing Kconfig
help text.
Signed-off-by: Arthur Othieno <apgo@patchbomb.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Everybody seems to be using /proc/vmcore as a method to access the kernel
crash dump. Hence probably it makes sense to enable CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE by
default if CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP is selected. This makes kdump configuration
further easier for a user.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch fixes the a compile error with CONFIG_SYSFS=n
Configfs is creating, as a matter of policy, the /sys/kernel/config
mountpoint. This means it requires CONFIG_SYSFS.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
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Original patch from Paul Mundt, sysfs parts removed by me since they
were broken.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
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Add default selection of CRYPTO_CAST5 when selecting RPCSEC_GSS_SPKM3.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Coffman <kwc@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
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OpenBSD doesn't see "." correctly in directories created by Linux. Copying
files over several KB will buy you infinite loop in __getblk_slow().
Copying files smaller than 1 KB seems to be OK. Sometimes files will be
filled with zeros. Sometimes incorrectly copied file will reappear after
next file with truncated size.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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I have heard some complaints about people not finding CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
option and also some objections about its dependency on CONFIG_EMBEDDED.
The following patch ends that dependency. I thought of hiding it under
CONFIG_KEXEC, but CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START could also be used for some reasons
other than kexec/kdump and hence left it visible. I will also update the
documentation accordingly.
o Following patch removes the config dependency of CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START
on CONFIG_EMBEDDED. The reason being CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP option for
kdump needs CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START which makes CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP depend
on CONFIG_EMBEDDED. It is not always obvious for kdump users to choose
CONFIG_EMBEDDED.
o It also shifts the palce where this option appears, to make it closer
to kexec and kdump options.
Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Haren Myneni <haren@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
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Link the code into the kernel build system. OCFS2 is marked as
experimental.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Kurt Hackel <kurt.hackel@oracle.com>
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Configfs, a file system for userspace-driven kernel object configuration.
The OCFS2 stack makes extensive use of this for propagation of cluster
configuration information into kernel.
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
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Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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Kconfig option for CIFS upcall.
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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Some manual fixups for clashing kfree() cleanups etc.
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Reported by Eddy Petrisor <eddy.petrisor@gmail.com>
fs/built-in.o(.text+0x35fdc): In function `hfs_mdb_put':
: undefined reference to `unload_nls'
fs/built-in.o(.text+0x35ff1): In function `hfs_mdb_put':
: undefined reference to `unload_nls'
fs/built-in.o(.text+0x367a5): In function `parse_options':
super.c: undefined reference to `load_nls'
fs/built-in.o(.text+0x367db):super.c: undefined reference to `load_nls'
fs/built-in.o(.text+0x36938):super.c: undefined reference to `load_nls_default'
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Acked-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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The goal of summary is to speed up the mount time. Erase block summary (EBS)
stores summary information at the end of every (closed) erase block. It is
no longer necessary to scan all nodes separetly (and read all pages of them)
just read this "small" summary, where every information is stored which is
needed at mount time.
This summary information is stored in a JFFS2_FEATURE_RWCOMPAT_DELETE. During
the mount process if there is no summary info the orignal scan process will
be executed. EBS works with NAND and NOR flashes, too.
There is a user space tool called sumtool to generate this summary
information for a JFFS2 image.
Signed-off-by: Ferenc Havasi <havasi@inf.u-szeged.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Add cifs extended stats configure option and reduce experimental code.
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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It seems logical.
Note that CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL itself doesn't enable any code.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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Add CONFIG_X86_32 for i386. This allows selecting options that only apply
to 32-bit systems.
(X86 && !X86_64) becomes X86_32
(X86 || X86_64) becomes X86
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Add information about required version of the userspace library/utilities
to Documentation/Changes. Also add pointer to this and to FUSE
documentation from Kconfig.
Thanks to Anton Altaparmakov for the reminder.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch adds FUSE filesystem to MAINTAINERS, fs/Kconfig and
fs/Makefile.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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OVERVIEW
V9FS is a distributed file system for Linux which provides an
implementation of the Plan 9 resource sharing protocol 9P. It can be
used to share all sorts of resources: static files, synthetic file servers
(such as /proc or /sys), devices, and application file servers (such as
FUSE).
BACKGROUND
Plan 9 (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9) is a research operating
system and associated applications suite developed by the Computing
Science Research Center of AT&T Bell Laboratories (now a part of
Lucent Technologies), the same group that developed UNIX , C, and C++.
Plan 9 was initially released in 1993 to universities, and then made
generally available in 1995. Its core operating systems code laid the
foundation for the Inferno Operating System released as a product by
Lucent Bell-Labs in 1997. The Inferno venture was the only commercial
embodiment of Plan 9 and is currently maintained as a product by Vita
Nuova (http://www.vitanuova.com). After updated releases in 2000 and
2002, Plan 9 was open-sourced under the OSI approved Lucent Public
License in 2003.
The Plan 9 project was started by Ken Thompson and Rob Pike in 1985.
Their intent was to explore potential solutions to some of the
shortcomings of UNIX in the face of the widespread use of high-speed
networks to connect machines. In UNIX, networking was an afterthought
and UNIX clusters became little more than a network of stand-alone
systems. Plan 9 was designed from first principles as a seamless
distributed system with integrated secure network resource sharing.
Applications and services were architected in such a way as to allow
for implicit distribution across a cluster of systems. Configuring an
environment to use remote application components or services in place
of their local equivalent could be achieved with a few simple command
line instructions. For the most part, application implementations
operated independent of the location of their actual resources.
Commercial operating systems haven't changed much in the 20 years
since Plan 9 was conceived. Network and distributed systems support is
provided by a patchwork of middle-ware, with an endless number of
packages supplying pieces of the puzzle. Matters are complicated by
the use of different complicated protocols for individual services,
and separate implementations for kernel and application resources.
The V9FS project (http://v9fs.sourceforge.net) is an attempt to bring
Plan 9's unified approach to resource sharing to Linux and other
operating systems via support for the 9P2000 resource sharing
protocol.
V9FS HISTORY
V9FS was originally developed by Ron Minnich and Maya Gokhale at Los
Alamos National Labs (LANL) in 1997. In November of 2001, Greg Watson
setup a SourceForge project as a public repository for the code which
supported the Linux 2.4 kernel.
About a year ago, I picked up the initial attempt Ron Minnich had
made to provide 2.6 support and got the code integrated into a 2.6.5
kernel. I then went through a line-for-line re-write attempting to
clean-up the code while more closely following the Linux Kernel style
guidelines. I co-authored a paper with Ron Minnich on the V9FS Linux
support including performance comparisons to NFSv3 using Bonnie and
PostMark - this paper appeared at the USENIX/FREENIX 2005
conference in April 2005:
( http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/tech/freenix/hensbergen.html ).
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION/REQUEST FOR COMMENTS
Our 2.6 kernel support is stabilizing and we'd like to begin pursuing
its integration into the official kernel tree. We would appreciate any
review, comments, critiques, and additions from this community and are
actively seeking people to join our project and help us produce
something that would be acceptable and useful to the Linux community.
STATUS
The code is reasonably stable, although there are no doubt corner cases
our regression tests haven't discovered yet. It is in regular use by several
of the developers and has been tested on x86 and PowerPC
(32-bit and 64-bit) in both small and large (LANL cluster) deployments.
Our current regression tests include fsx, bonnie, and postmark.
It was our intention to keep things as simple as possible for this
release -- trying to focus on correctness within the core of the
protocol support versus a rich set of features. For example: a more
complete security model and cache layer are in the road map, but
excluded from this release. Additionally, we have removed support for
mmap operations at Al Viro's request.
PERFORMANCE
Detailed performance numbers and analysis are included in the FREENIX
paper, but we show comparable performance to NFSv3 for large file
operations based on the Bonnie benchmark, and superior performance for
many small file operations based on the PostMark benchmark. Somewhat
preliminary graphs (from the FREENIX paper) are available
(http://v9fs.sourceforge.net/perf/index.html).
RESOURCES
The source code is available in a few different forms:
tarballs: http://v9fs.sf.net
CVSweb: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/v9fs/linux-9p/
CVS: :pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/v9fs/linux-9p
Git: rsync://v9fs.graverobber.org/v9fs (webgit: http://v9fs.graverobber.org)
9P: tcp!v9fs.graverobber.org!6564
The user-level server is available from either the Plan 9 distribution
or from http://v9fs.sf.net
Other support applications are still being developed, but preliminary
version can be downloaded from sourceforge.
Documentation on the protocol has historically been the Plan 9 Man
pages (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/man/5/INDEX.html), but there is
an effort under way to write a more complete Internet-Draft style
specification (http://v9fs.sf.net/rfc).
There are a couple of mailing lists supporting v9fs, but the most used
is v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net -- please direct/cc your
comments there so the other v9fs contibutors can participate in the
conversation. There is also an IRC channel: irc://freenode.net/#v9fs
This part of the patch contains Documentation, Makefiles, and configuration
file changes.
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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