From c002f42543e155dd2b5b5039ea2637ab26c82513 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anton Altaparmakov Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 12:02:56 +0000 Subject: NTFS: - Add disable_sparse mount option together with a per volume sparse enable bit which is set appropriately and a per inode sparse disable bit which is preset on some system file inodes as appropriate. - Enforce that sparse support is disabled on NTFS volumes pre 3.0. Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov --- Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt index f89b440fad1..cb3cb8c06e9 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Overview ======== Linux-NTFS comes with a number of user-space programs known as ntfsprogs. -These include mkntfs, a full-featured ntfs file system format utility, +These include mkntfs, a full-featured ntfs filesystem format utility, ntfsundelete used for recovering files that were unintentionally deleted from an NTFS volume and ntfsresize which is used to resize an NTFS partition. See the web site for more information. @@ -149,7 +149,14 @@ case_sensitive= If case_sensitive is specified, treat all file names as name, if it exists. If case_sensitive, you will need to provide the correct case of the short file name. -errors=opt What to do when critical file system errors are found. +disable_sparse= If disable_sparse is specified, creation of sparse + regions, i.e. holes, inside files is disabled for the + volume (for the duration of this mount only). By + default, creation of sparse regions is enabled, which + is consistent with the behaviour of traditional Unix + filesystems. + +errors=opt What to do when critical filesystem errors are found. Following values can be used for "opt": continue: DEFAULT, try to clean-up as much as possible, e.g. marking a corrupt inode as -- cgit v1.2.3