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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5a5a05582 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt @@ -0,0 +1,350 @@ + +The SGI XFS Filesystem +====================== + +XFS is a high performance journaling filesystem which originated +on the SGI IRIX platform. It is completely multi-threaded, can +support large files and large filesystems, extended attributes, +variable block sizes, is extent based, and makes extensive use of +Btrees (directories, extents, free space) to aid both performance +and scalability. + +Refer to the documentation at http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/ +for further details. This implementation is on-disk compatible +with the IRIX version of XFS. + + +Mount Options +============= + +When mounting an XFS filesystem, the following options are accepted. +For boolean mount options, the names with the (*) suffix is the +default behaviour. + + allocsize=size + Sets the buffered I/O end-of-file preallocation size when + doing delayed allocation writeout (default size is 64KiB). + Valid values for this option are page size (typically 4KiB) + through to 1GiB, inclusive, in power-of-2 increments. + + The default behaviour is for dynamic end-of-file + preallocation size, which uses a set of heuristics to + optimise the preallocation size based on the current + allocation patterns within the file and the access patterns + to the file. Specifying a fixed allocsize value turns off + the dynamic behaviour. + + attr2 + noattr2 + The options enable/disable an "opportunistic" improvement to + be made in the way inline extended attributes are stored + on-disk. When the new form is used for the first time when + attr2 is selected (either when setting or removing extended + attributes) the on-disk superblock feature bit field will be + updated to reflect this format being in use. + + The default behaviour is determined by the on-disk feature + bit indicating that attr2 behaviour is active. If either + mount option it set, then that becomes the new default used + by the filesystem. + + CRC enabled filesystems always use the attr2 format, and so + will reject the noattr2 mount option if it is set. + + barrier (*) + nobarrier + Enables/disables the use of block layer write barriers for + writes into the journal and for data integrity operations. + This allows for drive level write caching to be enabled, for + devices that support write barriers. + + discard + nodiscard (*) + Enable/disable the issuing of commands to let the block + device reclaim space freed by the filesystem. This is + useful for SSD devices, thinly provisioned LUNs and virtual + machine images, but may have a performance impact. + + Note: It is currently recommended that you use the fstrim + application to discard unused blocks rather than the discard + mount option because the performance impact of this option + is quite severe. + + grpid/bsdgroups + nogrpid/sysvgroups (*) + These options define what group ID a newly created file + gets. When grpid is set, it takes the group ID of the + directory in which it is created; otherwise it takes the + fsgid of the current process, unless the directory has the + setgid bit set, in which case it takes the gid from the + parent directory, and also gets the setgid bit set if it is + a directory itself. + + filestreams + Make the data allocator use the filestreams allocation mode + across the entire filesystem rather than just on directories + configured to use it. + + ikeep + noikeep (*) + When ikeep is specified, XFS does not delete empty inode + clusters and keeps them around on disk. When noikeep is + specified, empty inode clusters are returned to the free + space pool. + + inode32 + inode64 (*) + When inode32 is specified, it indicates that XFS limits + inode creation to locations which will not result in inode + numbers with more than 32 bits of significance. + + When inode64 is specified, it indicates that XFS is allowed + to create inodes at any location in the filesystem, + including those which will result in inode numbers occupying + more than 32 bits of significance. + + inode32 is provided for backwards compatibility with older + systems and applications, since 64 bits inode numbers might + cause problems for some applications that cannot handle + large inode numbers. If applications are in use which do + not handle inode numbers bigger than 32 bits, the inode32 + option should be specified. + + + largeio + nolargeio (*) + If "nolargeio" is specified, the optimal I/O reported in + st_blksize by stat(2) will be as small as possible to allow + user applications to avoid inefficient read/modify/write + I/O. This is typically the page size of the machine, as + this is the granularity of the page cache. + + If "largeio" specified, a filesystem that was created with a + "swidth" specified will return the "swidth" value (in bytes) + in st_blksize. If the filesystem does not have a "swidth" + specified but does specify an "allocsize" then "allocsize" + (in bytes) will be returned instead. Otherwise the behaviour + is the same as if "nolargeio" was specified. + + logbufs=value + Set the number of in-memory log buffers. Valid numbers + range from 2-8 inclusive. + + The default value is 8 buffers. + + If the memory cost of 8 log buffers is too high on small + systems, then it may be reduced at some cost to performance + on metadata intensive workloads. The logbsize option below + controls the size of each buffer and so is also relevant to + this case. + + logbsize=value + Set the size of each in-memory log buffer. The size may be + specified in bytes, or in kilobytes with a "k" suffix. + Valid sizes for version 1 and version 2 logs are 16384 (16k) + and 32768 (32k). Valid sizes for version 2 logs also + include 65536 (64k), 131072 (128k) and 262144 (256k). The + logbsize must be an integer multiple of the log + stripe unit configured at mkfs time. + + The default value for for version 1 logs is 32768, while the + default value for version 2 logs is MAX(32768, log_sunit). + + logdev=device and rtdev=device + Use an external log (metadata journal) and/or real-time device. + An XFS filesystem has up to three parts: a data section, a log + section, and a real-time section. The real-time section is + optional, and the log section can be separate from the data + section or contained within it. + + noalign + Data allocations will not be aligned at stripe unit + boundaries. This is only relevant to filesystems created + with non-zero data alignment parameters (sunit, swidth) by + mkfs. + + norecovery + The filesystem will be mounted without running log recovery. + If the filesystem was not cleanly unmounted, it is likely to + be inconsistent when mounted in "norecovery" mode. + Some files or directories may not be accessible because of this. + Filesystems mounted "norecovery" must be mounted read-only or + the mount will fail. + + nouuid + Don't check for double mounted file systems using the file + system uuid. This is useful to mount LVM snapshot volumes, + and often used in combination with "norecovery" for mounting + read-only snapshots. + + noquota + Forcibly turns off all quota accounting and enforcement + within the filesystem. + + uquota/usrquota/uqnoenforce/quota + User disk quota accounting enabled, and limits (optionally) + enforced. Refer to xfs_quota(8) for further details. + + gquota/grpquota/gqnoenforce + Group disk quota accounting enabled and limits (optionally) + enforced. Refer to xfs_quota(8) for further details. + + pquota/prjquota/pqnoenforce + Project disk quota accounting enabled and limits (optionally) + enforced. Refer to xfs_quota(8) for further details. + + sunit=value and swidth=value + Used to specify the stripe unit and width for a RAID device + or a stripe volume. "value" must be specified in 512-byte + block units. These options are only relevant to filesystems + that were created with non-zero data alignment parameters. + + The sunit and swidth parameters specified must be compatible + with the existing filesystem alignment characteristics. In + general, that means the only valid changes to sunit are + increasing it by a power-of-2 multiple. Valid swidth values + are any integer multiple of a valid sunit value. + + Typically the only time these mount options are necessary if + after an underlying RAID device has had it's geometry + modified, such as adding a new disk to a RAID5 lun and + reshaping it. + + swalloc + Data allocations will be rounded up to stripe width boundaries + when the current end of file is being extended and the file + size is larger than the stripe width size. + + wsync + When specified, all filesystem namespace operations are + executed synchronously. This ensures that when the namespace + operation (create, unlink, etc) completes, the change to the + namespace is on stable storage. This is useful in HA setups + where failover must not result in clients seeing + inconsistent namespace presentation during or after a + failover event. + + +Deprecated Mount Options +======================== + +None at present. + + +Removed Mount Options +===================== + + Name Removed + ---- ------- + delaylog/nodelaylog v3.20 + ihashsize v3.20 + irixsgid v3.20 + osyncisdsync/osyncisosync v3.20 + + +sysctls +======= + +The following sysctls are available for the XFS filesystem: + + fs.xfs.stats_clear (Min: 0 Default: 0 Max: 1) + Setting this to "1" clears accumulated XFS statistics + in /proc/fs/xfs/stat. It then immediately resets to "0". + + fs.xfs.xfssyncd_centisecs (Min: 100 Default: 3000 Max: 720000) + The interval at which the filesystem flushes metadata + out to disk and runs internal cache cleanup routines. + + fs.xfs.filestream_centisecs (Min: 1 Default: 3000 Max: 360000) + The interval at which the filesystem ages filestreams cache + references and returns timed-out AGs back to the free stream + pool. + + fs.xfs.speculative_prealloc_lifetime + (Units: seconds Min: 1 Default: 300 Max: 86400) + The interval at which the background scanning for inodes + with unused speculative preallocation runs. The scan + removes unused preallocation from clean inodes and releases + the unused space back to the free pool. + + fs.xfs.error_level (Min: 0 Default: 3 Max: 11) + A volume knob for error reporting when internal errors occur. + This will generate detailed messages & backtraces for filesystem + shutdowns, for example. Current threshold values are: + + XFS_ERRLEVEL_OFF: 0 + XFS_ERRLEVEL_LOW: 1 + XFS_ERRLEVEL_HIGH: 5 + + fs.xfs.panic_mask (Min: 0 Default: 0 Max: 255) + Causes certain error conditions to call BUG(). Value is a bitmask; + OR together the tags which represent errors which should cause panics: + + XFS_NO_PTAG 0 + XFS_PTAG_IFLUSH 0x00000001 + XFS_PTAG_LOGRES 0x00000002 + XFS_PTAG_AILDELETE 0x00000004 + XFS_PTAG_ERROR_REPORT 0x00000008 + XFS_PTAG_SHUTDOWN_CORRUPT 0x00000010 + XFS_PTAG_SHUTDOWN_IOERROR 0x00000020 + XFS_PTAG_SHUTDOWN_LOGERROR 0x00000040 + XFS_PTAG_FSBLOCK_ZERO 0x00000080 + + This option is intended for debugging only. + + fs.xfs.irix_symlink_mode (Min: 0 Default: 0 Max: 1) + Controls whether symlinks are created with mode 0777 (default) + or whether their mode is affected by the umask (irix mode). + + fs.xfs.irix_sgid_inherit (Min: 0 Default: 0 Max: 1) + Controls files created in SGID directories. + If the group ID of the new file does not match the effective group + ID or one of the supplementary group IDs of the parent dir, the + ISGID bit is cleared if the irix_sgid_inherit compatibility sysctl + is set. + + fs.xfs.inherit_sync (Min: 0 Default: 1 Max: 1) + Setting this to "1" will cause the "sync" flag set + by the xfs_io(8) chattr command on a directory to be + inherited by files in that directory. + + fs.xfs.inherit_nodump (Min: 0 Default: 1 Max: 1) + Setting this to "1" will cause the "nodump" flag set + by the xfs_io(8) chattr command on a directory to be + inherited by files in that directory. + + fs.xfs.inherit_noatime (Min: 0 Default: 1 Max: 1) + Setting this to "1" will cause the "noatime" flag set + by the xfs_io(8) chattr command on a directory to be + inherited by files in that directory. + + fs.xfs.inherit_nosymlinks (Min: 0 Default: 1 Max: 1) + Setting this to "1" will cause the "nosymlinks" flag set + by the xfs_io(8) chattr command on a directory to be + inherited by files in that directory. + + fs.xfs.inherit_nodefrag (Min: 0 Default: 1 Max: 1) + Setting this to "1" will cause the "nodefrag" flag set + by the xfs_io(8) chattr command on a directory to be + inherited by files in that directory. + + fs.xfs.rotorstep (Min: 1 Default: 1 Max: 256) + In "inode32" allocation mode, this option determines how many + files the allocator attempts to allocate in the same allocation + group before moving to the next allocation group. The intent + is to control the rate at which the allocator moves between + allocation groups when allocating extents for new files. + +Deprecated Sysctls +================== + +None at present. + + +Removed Sysctls +=============== + + Name Removed + ---- ------- + fs.xfs.xfsbufd_centisec v3.20 + fs.xfs.age_buffer_centisecs v3.20 |