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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-07-02 09:42:38 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-07-02 09:42:38 -0700
commit3f490f7f99053288bd85563f8d9b5032b810e177 (patch)
treea921f0fba44c8aac602608ff7349c25e4129b132 /Documentation
parentc4eb1b07303ad9e00aba842aa90d5521293ac857 (diff)
parenta1dd3c13ce65b726fddfe72b9d2f1009db983ce6 (diff)
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Merge tag 'for-f2fs-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs
Pull f2fs updates from Jaegeuk Kim:
 "This patch-set includes the following major enhancement patches:
   - remount_fs callback function
   - restore parent inode number to enhance the fsync performance
   - xattr security labels
   - reduce the number of redundant lock/unlock data pages
   - avoid frequent write_inode calls

  The other minor bug fixes are as follows.
   - endian conversion bugs
   - various bugs in the roll-forward recovery routine"

* tag 'for-f2fs-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs: (56 commits)
  f2fs: fix to recover i_size from roll-forward
  f2fs: remove the unused argument "sbi" of func destroy_fsync_dnodes()
  f2fs: remove reusing any prefree segments
  f2fs: code cleanup and simplify in func {find/add}_gc_inode
  f2fs: optimize the init_dirty_segmap function
  f2fs: fix an endian conversion bug detected by sparse
  f2fs: fix crc endian conversion
  f2fs: add remount_fs callback support
  f2fs: recover wrong pino after checkpoint during fsync
  f2fs: optimize do_write_data_page()
  f2fs: make locate_dirty_segment() as static
  f2fs: remove unnecessary parameter "offset" from __add_sum_entry()
  f2fs: avoid freqeunt write_inode calls
  f2fs: optimise the truncate_data_blocks_range() range
  f2fs: use the F2FS specific flags in f2fs_ioctl()
  f2fs: sync dir->i_size with its block allocation
  f2fs: fix i_blocks translation on various types of files
  f2fs: set sb->s_fs_info before calling parse_options()
  f2fs: support xattr security labels
  f2fs: fix iget/iput of dir during recovery
  ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt
index bd3c56c67380..b91e2f26b672 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt
@@ -98,8 +98,13 @@ Cleaning Overhead
 MOUNT OPTIONS
 ================================================================================
 
-background_gc_off      Turn off cleaning operations, namely garbage collection,
-		       triggered in background when I/O subsystem is idle.
+background_gc=%s       Turn on/off cleaning operations, namely garbage
+                       collection, triggered in background when I/O subsystem is
+                       idle. If background_gc=on, it will turn on the garbage
+                       collection and if background_gc=off, garbage collection
+                       will be truned off.
+                       Default value for this option is on. So garbage
+                       collection is on by default.
 disable_roll_forward   Disable the roll-forward recovery routine
 discard                Issue discard/TRIM commands when a segment is cleaned.
 no_heap                Disable heap-style segment allocation which finds free