2005-04-16 22:20:36 +00:00
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#
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# File system configuration
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menu "File systems"
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2012-03-06 19:16:17 +00:00
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# Use unaligned word dcache accesses
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config DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS
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bool
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[PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #6]
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>
2006-09-30 18:45:40 +00:00
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if BLOCK
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2016-06-20 23:23:11 +00:00
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config FS_IOMAP
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bool
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2008-10-20 18:28:45 +00:00
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source "fs/ext2/Kconfig"
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source "fs/ext4/Kconfig"
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source "fs/jbd2/Kconfig"
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2006-10-11 08:21:01 +00:00
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2005-04-16 22:20:36 +00:00
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config FS_MBCACHE
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2006-10-11 08:20:56 +00:00
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# Meta block cache for Extended Attributes (ext2/ext3/ext4)
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2005-04-16 22:20:36 +00:00
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tristate
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2008-08-20 23:56:22 +00:00
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default y if EXT2_FS=y && EXT2_FS_XATTR
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2012-12-10 21:30:43 +00:00
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default y if EXT4_FS=y
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2015-06-18 14:52:29 +00:00
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default m if EXT2_FS_XATTR || EXT4_FS
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2005-04-16 22:20:36 +00:00
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2009-01-22 07:22:31 +00:00
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source "fs/reiserfs/Kconfig"
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2009-01-22 07:24:27 +00:00
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source "fs/jfs/Kconfig"
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2005-04-16 22:20:36 +00:00
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2009-06-16 22:33:56 +00:00
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source "fs/xfs/Kconfig"
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source "fs/gfs2/Kconfig"
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source "fs/ocfs2/Kconfig"
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source "fs/btrfs/Kconfig"
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2009-08-08 07:09:46 +00:00
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source "fs/nilfs2/Kconfig"
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2015-03-04 01:06:55 +00:00
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source "fs/f2fs/Kconfig"
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2009-06-16 22:33:56 +00:00
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2015-02-16 23:59:25 +00:00
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config FS_DAX
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bool "Direct Access (DAX) support"
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depends on MMU
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2015-02-16 23:59:44 +00:00
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depends on !(ARM || MIPS || SPARC)
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2015-02-16 23:59:25 +00:00
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help
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Direct Access (DAX) can be used on memory-backed block devices.
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If the block device supports DAX and the filesystem supports DAX,
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then you can avoid using the pagecache to buffer I/Os. Turning
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on this option will compile in support for DAX; you will need to
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mount the filesystem using the -o dax option.
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If you do not have a block device that is capable of using this,
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or if unsure, say N. Saying Y will increase the size of the kernel
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by about 5kB.
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2015-11-16 00:06:32 +00:00
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config FS_DAX_PMD
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bool
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default FS_DAX
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depends on FS_DAX
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2016-01-16 00:57:01 +00:00
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depends on ZONE_DEVICE
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depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
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dax: Make huge page handling depend of CONFIG_BROKEN
Currently the handling of huge pages for DAX is racy. For example the
following can happen:
CPU0 (THP write fault) CPU1 (normal read fault)
__dax_pmd_fault() __dax_fault()
get_block(inode, block, &bh, 0) -> not mapped
get_block(inode, block, &bh, 0)
-> not mapped
if (!buffer_mapped(&bh) && write)
get_block(inode, block, &bh, 1) -> allocates blocks
truncate_pagecache_range(inode, lstart, lend);
dax_load_hole();
This results in data corruption since process on CPU1 won't see changes
into the file done by CPU0.
The race can happen even if two normal faults race however with THP the
situation is even worse because the two faults don't operate on the same
entries in the radix tree and we want to use these entries for
serialization. So make THP support in DAX code depend on CONFIG_BROKEN
for now.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
2016-05-12 16:29:15 +00:00
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depends on BROKEN
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2015-11-16 00:06:32 +00:00
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2009-06-16 22:33:56 +00:00
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endif # BLOCK
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2011-01-02 22:44:00 +00:00
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# Posix ACL utility routines
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#
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# Note: Posix ACLs can be implemented without these helpers. Never use
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# this symbol for ifdefs in core code.
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#
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config FS_POSIX_ACL
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def_bool n
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2010-10-26 21:22:32 +00:00
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config EXPORTFS
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2011-05-24 18:12:08 +00:00
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tristate
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2010-10-26 21:22:32 +00:00
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2016-07-08 13:53:20 +00:00
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config EXPORTFS_BLOCK_OPS
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bool "Enable filesystem export operations for block IO"
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help
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This option enables the export operations for a filesystem to support
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external block IO.
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2008-08-06 13:12:22 +00:00
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config FILE_LOCKING
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2011-01-20 22:44:16 +00:00
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bool "Enable POSIX file locking API" if EXPERT
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2008-08-06 13:12:22 +00:00
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default y
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2015-06-22 12:16:34 +00:00
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select PERCPU_RWSEM
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2008-08-06 13:12:22 +00:00
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help
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This option enables standard file locking support, required
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for filesystems like NFS and for the flock() system
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call. Disabling this option saves about 11k.
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2015-11-16 14:49:34 +00:00
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config MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING
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bool "Enable Mandatory file locking"
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depends on FILE_LOCKING
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default y
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help
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This option enables files appropriately marked files on appropriely
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mounted filesystems to support mandatory locking.
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To the best of my knowledge this is dead code that no one cares about.
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2015-05-15 23:26:10 +00:00
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source "fs/crypto/Kconfig"
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2008-12-17 18:59:41 +00:00
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source "fs/notify/Kconfig"
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[PATCH] inotify
inotify is intended to correct the deficiencies of dnotify, particularly
its inability to scale and its terrible user interface:
* dnotify requires the opening of one fd per each directory
that you intend to watch. This quickly results in too many
open files and pins removable media, preventing unmount.
* dnotify is directory-based. You only learn about changes to
directories. Sure, a change to a file in a directory affects
the directory, but you are then forced to keep a cache of
stat structures.
* dnotify's interface to user-space is awful. Signals?
inotify provides a more usable, simple, powerful solution to file change
notification:
* inotify's interface is a system call that returns a fd, not SIGIO.
You get a single fd, which is select()-able.
* inotify has an event that says "the filesystem that the item
you were watching is on was unmounted."
* inotify can watch directories or files.
Inotify is currently used by Beagle (a desktop search infrastructure),
Gamin (a FAM replacement), and other projects.
See Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt.
Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-12 21:06:03 +00:00
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2009-01-26 14:28:09 +00:00
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source "fs/quota/Kconfig"
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2005-04-16 22:20:36 +00:00
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2009-01-22 07:31:56 +00:00
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source "fs/autofs4/Kconfig"
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2009-01-22 07:33:25 +00:00
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source "fs/fuse/Kconfig"
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overlay filesystem
Overlayfs allows one, usually read-write, directory tree to be
overlaid onto another, read-only directory tree. All modifications
go to the upper, writable layer.
This type of mechanism is most often used for live CDs but there's a
wide variety of other uses.
The implementation differs from other "union filesystem"
implementations in that after a file is opened all operations go
directly to the underlying, lower or upper, filesystems. This
simplifies the implementation and allows native performance in these
cases.
The dentry tree is duplicated from the underlying filesystems, this
enables fast cached lookups without adding special support into the
VFS. This uses slightly more memory than union mounts, but dentries
are relatively small.
Currently inodes are duplicated as well, but it is a possible
optimization to share inodes for non-directories.
Opening non directories results in the open forwarded to the
underlying filesystem. This makes the behavior very similar to union
mounts (with the same limitations vs. fchmod/fchown on O_RDONLY file
descriptors).
Usage:
mount -t overlayfs overlayfs -olowerdir=/lower,upperdir=/upper/upper,workdir=/upper/work /overlay
The following cotributions have been folded into this patch:
Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>:
- minimal remount support
- use correct seek function for directories
- initialise is_real before use
- rename ovl_fill_cache to ovl_dir_read
Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>:
- fix a deadlock in ovl_dir_read_merged
- fix a deadlock in ovl_remove_whiteouts
Erez Zadok <ezk@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
- fix cleanup after WARN_ON
Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@googlemail.com>
- fix up permission to confirm to new API
Robin Dong <hao.bigrat@gmail.com>
- fix possible leak in ovl_new_inode
- create new inode in ovl_link
Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
- switch to __inode_permission()
- copy up i_uid/i_gid from the underlying inode
AV:
- ovl_copy_up_locked() - dput(ERR_PTR(...)) on two failure exits
- ovl_clear_empty() - one failure exit forgetting to do unlock_rename(),
lack of check for udir being the parent of upper, dropping and regaining
the lock on udir (which would require _another_ check for parent being
right).
- bogus d_drop() in copyup and rename [fix from your mail]
- copyup/remove and copyup/rename races [fix from your mail]
- ovl_dir_fsync() leaving ERR_PTR() in ->realfile
- ovl_entry_free() is pointless - it's just a kfree_rcu()
- fold ovl_do_lookup() into ovl_lookup()
- manually assigning ->d_op is wrong. Just use ->s_d_op.
[patches picked from Miklos]:
* copyup/remove and copyup/rename races
* bogus d_drop() in copyup and rename
Also thanks to the following people for testing and reporting bugs:
Jordi Pujol <jordipujolp@gmail.com>
Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz>
Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Erez Zadok <ezk@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2014-10-23 22:14:38 +00:00
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source "fs/overlayfs/Kconfig"
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2005-09-09 20:10:22 +00:00
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2009-04-03 15:42:36 +00:00
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menu "Caches"
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source "fs/fscache/Kconfig"
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CacheFiles: A cache that backs onto a mounted filesystem
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.
=============
CACHE CULLING
=============
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>
2009-04-03 15:42:41 +00:00
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source "fs/cachefiles/Kconfig"
|
2009-04-03 15:42:36 +00:00
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endmenu
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|
[PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #6]
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>
2006-09-30 18:45:40 +00:00
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if BLOCK
|
2005-04-16 22:20:36 +00:00
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menu "CD-ROM/DVD Filesystems"
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2009-01-22 07:35:21 +00:00
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source "fs/isofs/Kconfig"
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source "fs/udf/Kconfig"
|
2005-04-16 22:20:36 +00:00
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endmenu
|
2008-02-07 08:15:16 +00:00
|
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endif # BLOCK
|
2005-04-16 22:20:36 +00:00
|
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|
|
[PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #6]
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>
2006-09-30 18:45:40 +00:00
|
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if BLOCK
|
2005-04-16 22:20:36 +00:00
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menu "DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems"
|
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2009-01-22 07:37:59 +00:00
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source "fs/fat/Kconfig"
|
2009-01-22 07:39:20 +00:00
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source "fs/ntfs/Kconfig"
|
2005-04-16 22:20:36 +00:00
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endmenu
|
2008-02-07 08:15:16 +00:00
|
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endif # BLOCK
|
2005-04-16 22:20:36 +00:00
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|
menu "Pseudo filesystems"
|
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2008-07-25 08:48:30 +00:00
|
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|
source "fs/proc/Kconfig"
|
2014-02-03 19:09:17 +00:00
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|
source "fs/kernfs/Kconfig"
|
2009-01-22 07:40:58 +00:00
|
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|
source "fs/sysfs/Kconfig"
|
2005-04-16 22:20:36 +00:00
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|
config TMPFS
|
2011-11-01 00:07:21 +00:00
|
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|
bool "Tmpfs virtual memory file system support (former shm fs)"
|
2009-09-22 00:03:37 +00:00
|
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|
depends on SHMEM
|
2005-04-16 22:20:36 +00:00
|
|
|
help
|
|
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|
Tmpfs is a file system which keeps all files in virtual memory.
|
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|
Everything in tmpfs is temporary in the sense that no files will be
|
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created on your hard drive. The files live in memory and swap
|
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|
space. If you unmount a tmpfs instance, everything stored therein is
|
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lost.
|
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See <file:Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt> for details.
|
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|
2011-05-26 02:49:18 +00:00
|
|
|
config TMPFS_POSIX_ACL
|
|
|
|
|
bool "Tmpfs POSIX Access Control Lists"
|
|
|
|
|
depends on TMPFS
|
|
|
|
|
select TMPFS_XATTR
|
2013-12-20 13:16:54 +00:00
|
|
|
select FS_POSIX_ACL
|
2011-05-26 02:49:18 +00:00
|
|
|
help
|
2011-08-03 23:21:29 +00:00
|
|
|
POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support additional access rights
|
|
|
|
|
for users and groups beyond the standard owner/group/world scheme,
|
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|
|
and this option selects support for ACLs specifically for tmpfs
|
|
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|
|
filesystems.
|
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|
If you've selected TMPFS, it's possible that you'll also need
|
|
|
|
|
this option as there are a number of Linux distros that require
|
|
|
|
|
POSIX ACL support under /dev for certain features to work properly.
|
|
|
|
|
For example, some distros need this feature for ALSA-related /dev
|
|
|
|
|
files for sound to work properly. In short, if you're not sure,
|
|
|
|
|
say Y.
|
2011-05-26 02:49:18 +00:00
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for
|
|
|
|
|
Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
|
|
|
|
|
|
tmpfs: implement generic xattr support
Implement generic xattrs for tmpfs filesystems. The Feodra project, while
trying to replace suid apps with file capabilities, realized that tmpfs,
which is used on the build systems, does not support file capabilities and
thus cannot be used to build packages which use file capabilities. Xattrs
are also needed for overlayfs.
The xattr interface is a bit odd. If a filesystem does not implement any
{get,set,list}xattr functions the VFS will call into some random LSM hooks
and the running LSM can then implement some method for handling xattrs.
SELinux for example provides a method to support security.selinux but no
other security.* xattrs.
As it stands today when one enables CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL tmpfs will have
xattr handler routines specifically to handle acls. Because of this tmpfs
would loose the VFS/LSM helpers to support the running LSM. To make up
for that tmpfs had stub functions that did nothing but call into the LSM
hooks which implement the helpers.
This new patch does not use the LSM fallback functions and instead just
implements a native get/set/list xattr feature for the full security.* and
trusted.* namespace like a normal filesystem. This means that tmpfs can
now support both security.selinux and security.capability, which was not
previously possible.
The basic implementation is that I attach a:
struct shmem_xattr {
struct list_head list; /* anchored by shmem_inode_info->xattr_list */
char *name;
size_t size;
char value[0];
};
Into the struct shmem_inode_info for each xattr that is set. This
implementation could easily support the user.* namespace as well, except
some care needs to be taken to prevent large amounts of unswappable memory
being allocated for unprivileged users.
[mszeredi@suse.cz: new config option, suport trusted.*, support symlinks]
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Tested-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Tested-by: Jordi Pujol <jordipujolp@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25 00:12:39 +00:00
|
|
|
config TMPFS_XATTR
|
|
|
|
|
bool "Tmpfs extended attributes"
|
|
|
|
|
depends on TMPFS
|
|
|
|
|
default n
|
|
|
|
|
help
|
|
|
|
|
Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
|
|
|
|
|
the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
|
|
|
|
|
<http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details).
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Currently this enables support for the trusted.* and
|
|
|
|
|
security.* namespaces.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
You need this for POSIX ACL support on tmpfs.
|
|
|
|
|
|
2011-05-26 02:49:18 +00:00
|
|
|
If unsure, say N.
|
2006-09-29 09:01:35 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2005-04-16 22:20:36 +00:00
|
|
|
config HUGETLBFS
|
|
|
|
|
bool "HugeTLB file system support"
|
2009-10-30 04:03:54 +00:00
|
|
|
depends on X86 || IA64 || SPARC64 || (S390 && 64BIT) || \
|
2009-10-26 22:22:37 +00:00
|
|
|
SYS_SUPPORTS_HUGETLBFS || BROKEN
|
2006-04-19 05:20:57 +00:00
|
|
|
help
|
|
|
|
|
hugetlbfs is a filesystem backing for HugeTLB pages, based on
|
|
|
|
|
ramfs. For architectures that support it, say Y here and read
|
|
|
|
|
<file:Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt> for details.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
If unsure, say N.
|
2005-04-16 22:20:36 +00:00
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
config HUGETLB_PAGE
|
|
|
|
|
def_bool HUGETLBFS
|
|
|
|
|
|
2009-01-22 07:42:52 +00:00
|
|
|
source "fs/configfs/Kconfig"
|
2014-12-18 17:50:49 +00:00
|
|
|
source "fs/efivarfs/Kconfig"
|
2005-12-15 22:29:43 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2005-04-16 22:20:36 +00:00
|
|
|
endmenu
|
|
|
|
|
|
2009-01-06 22:40:57 +00:00
|
|
|
menuconfig MISC_FILESYSTEMS
|
|
|
|
|
bool "Miscellaneous filesystems"
|
|
|
|
|
default y
|
|
|
|
|
---help---
|
|
|
|
|
Say Y here to get to see options for various miscellaneous
|
|
|
|
|
filesystems, such as filesystems that came from other
|
|
|
|
|
operating systems.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
This option alone does not add any kernel code.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and
|
|
|
|
|
disabled; if unsure, say Y here.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
if MISC_FILESYSTEMS
|
2005-04-16 22:20:36 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2015-07-17 14:38:17 +00:00
|
|
|
source "fs/orangefs/Kconfig"
|
2009-01-22 07:48:46 +00:00
|
|
|
source "fs/adfs/Kconfig"
|
2009-01-22 07:49:44 +00:00
|
|
|
source "fs/affs/Kconfig"
|
2009-01-22 07:50:50 +00:00
|
|
|
source "fs/ecryptfs/Kconfig"
|
2009-01-22 07:53:24 +00:00
|
|
|
source "fs/hfs/Kconfig"
|
|
|
|
|
source "fs/hfsplus/Kconfig"
|
2009-01-22 07:54:16 +00:00
|
|
|
source "fs/befs/Kconfig"
|
2009-01-22 07:55:13 +00:00
|
|
|
source "fs/bfs/Kconfig"
|
2009-01-22 07:56:07 +00:00
|
|
|
source "fs/efs/Kconfig"
|
2008-08-29 03:19:50 +00:00
|
|
|
source "fs/jffs2/Kconfig"
|
2008-07-14 16:08:38 +00:00
|
|
|
# UBIFS File system configuration
|
|
|
|
|
source "fs/ubifs/Kconfig"
|
2009-11-20 19:13:39 +00:00
|
|
|
source "fs/logfs/Kconfig"
|
2009-01-22 07:56:54 +00:00
|
|
|
source "fs/cramfs/Kconfig"
|
2009-01-22 07:57:46 +00:00
|
|
|
source "fs/squashfs/Kconfig"
|
2009-01-22 07:58:51 +00:00
|
|
|
source "fs/freevxfs/Kconfig"
|
2009-01-22 07:59:49 +00:00
|
|
|
source "fs/minix/Kconfig"
|
2009-01-22 08:00:41 +00:00
|
|
|
source "fs/omfs/Kconfig"
|
2009-01-22 08:01:26 +00:00
|
|
|
source "fs/hpfs/Kconfig"
|
2009-01-22 08:02:21 +00:00
|
|
|
source "fs/qnx4/Kconfig"
|
2012-02-17 04:59:20 +00:00
|
|
|
source "fs/qnx6/Kconfig"
|
2009-01-22 08:03:34 +00:00
|
|
|
source "fs/romfs/Kconfig"
|
2010-12-28 22:25:21 +00:00
|
|
|
source "fs/pstore/Kconfig"
|
2009-01-22 08:04:23 +00:00
|
|
|
source "fs/sysv/Kconfig"
|
2009-01-22 08:05:02 +00:00
|
|
|
source "fs/ufs/Kconfig"
|
2008-12-15 10:53:08 +00:00
|
|
|
source "fs/exofs/Kconfig"
|
2009-04-07 02:01:41 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2009-01-06 22:40:57 +00:00
|
|
|
endif # MISC_FILESYSTEMS
|
2005-04-16 22:20:36 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2011-11-29 23:35:53 +00:00
|
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source "fs/exofs/Kconfig.ore"
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2007-10-17 06:30:16 +00:00
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menuconfig NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS
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bool "Network File Systems"
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default y
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depends on NET
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---help---
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Say Y here to get to see options for network filesystems and
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filesystem-related networking code, such as NFS daemon and
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RPCSEC security modules.
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This option alone does not add any kernel code.
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If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and
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disabled; if unsure, say Y here.
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if NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS
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2009-01-22 08:07:41 +00:00
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source "fs/nfs/Kconfig"
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2009-01-22 08:08:58 +00:00
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source "fs/nfsd/Kconfig"
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2014-09-12 20:40:20 +00:00
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config GRACE_PERIOD
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tristate
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config LOCKD
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tristate
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depends on FILE_LOCKING
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select GRACE_PERIOD
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config LOCKD_V4
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bool
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depends on NFSD_V3 || NFS_V3
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depends on FILE_LOCKING
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default y
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config NFS_ACL_SUPPORT
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tristate
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select FS_POSIX_ACL
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config NFS_COMMON
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bool
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depends on NFSD || NFS_FS || LOCKD
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default y
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2009-01-22 08:11:56 +00:00
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source "net/sunrpc/Kconfig"
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2009-10-06 18:31:15 +00:00
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source "fs/ceph/Kconfig"
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2008-10-19 03:28:49 +00:00
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source "fs/cifs/Kconfig"
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source "fs/ncpfs/Kconfig"
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2009-01-22 08:15:06 +00:00
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source "fs/coda/Kconfig"
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2009-01-22 08:16:02 +00:00
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source "fs/afs/Kconfig"
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2009-01-22 08:16:42 +00:00
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source "fs/9p/Kconfig"
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[PATCH] v9fs: Documentation, Makefiles, Configuration
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>
2005-09-09 20:04:18 +00:00
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endif # NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS
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2005-04-16 22:20:36 +00:00
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source "fs/nls/Kconfig"
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2006-01-18 09:30:29 +00:00
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source "fs/dlm/Kconfig"
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