[GFS2] Add documentation for GFS2
Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steve Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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| Global File System | ||||
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| 
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| http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/ | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| GFS is a cluster file system. It allows a cluster of computers to | ||||
| simultaneously use a block device that is shared between them (with FC, | ||||
| iSCSI, NBD, etc).  GFS reads and writes to the block device like a local | ||||
| file system, but also uses a lock module to allow the computers coordinate | ||||
| their I/O so file system consistency is maintained.  One of the nifty | ||||
| features of GFS is perfect consistency -- changes made to the file system | ||||
| on one machine show up immediately on all other machines in the cluster. | ||||
| 
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| GFS uses interchangable inter-node locking mechanisms.  Different lock | ||||
| modules can plug into GFS and each file system selects the appropriate | ||||
| lock module at mount time.  Lock modules include: | ||||
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 | ||||
|   lock_nolock -- allows gfs to be used as a local file system | ||||
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 | ||||
|   lock_dlm -- uses a distributed lock manager (dlm) for inter-node locking | ||||
|   The dlm is found at linux/fs/dlm/ | ||||
| 
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| In addition to interfacing with an external locking manager, a gfs lock | ||||
| module is responsible for interacting with external cluster management | ||||
| systems.  Lock_dlm depends on user space cluster management systems found | ||||
| at the URL above. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| To use gfs as a local file system, no external clustering systems are | ||||
| needed, simply: | ||||
| 
 | ||||
|   $ gfs2_mkfs -p lock_nolock -j 1 /dev/block_device | ||||
|   $ mount -t gfs2 /dev/block_device /dir | ||||
| 
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| GFS2 is not on-disk compatible with previous versions of GFS. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| The following man pages can be found at the URL above: | ||||
|   gfs2_mkfs	to make a filesystem | ||||
|   gfs2_fsck	to repair a filesystem | ||||
|   gfs2_grow	to expand a filesystem online | ||||
|   gfs2_jadd	to add journals to a filesystem online | ||||
|   gfs2_tool	to manipulate, examine and tune a filesystem | ||||
|   gfs2_quota	to examine and change quota values in a filesystem | ||||
|   mount.gfs2	to find mount options | ||||
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