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* [PATCH 1/2] xfsprogs: add mount options to xfs.5 manpage
@ 2014-06-11 20:02 Eric Sandeen
  2014-06-11 20:04 ` [PATCH 2/2] xfsprogs: indicate default mount options in " Eric Sandeen
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From: Eric Sandeen @ 2014-06-11 20:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: xfs-oss, Karel Zak

This is a straight cut and paste from the util-linux
mount manpage to xfs.5.

It's pretty much impossible for util-linux to keep up
with every filesystem out there, and Karel has more than
once expressed a wish that mount options move into fs-specific
manpages.

So, here we go.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
---

diff --git a/man/man5/xfs.5 b/man/man5/xfs.5
index 0f490f0..1729e38 100644
--- a/man/man5/xfs.5
+++ b/man/man5/xfs.5
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 .TH xfs 5
 .SH NAME
-xfs \- layout of the XFS filesystem
+xfs \- layout and mount options for the XFS filesystem
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 An XFS filesystem can reside on a regular disk partition or on a
 logical volume.
@@ -98,9 +98,205 @@ and by-handle (see
 .BR open_by_handle (3))
 interfaces.
 .SH MOUNT OPTIONS
-Refer to the
+The following XFS-specific mount options may be used when mounting
+an XFS filesystem. Other generic options may be used as well; refer to the
 .BR mount (8)
-manual entry for descriptions of the individual XFS mount options.
+manual page for more details.
+.TP
+.B allocsize=size
+Sets the buffered I/O end-of-file preallocation size when
+doing delayed allocation writeout. Valid values for this
+option are page size (typically 4KiB) through to 1GiB,
+inclusive, in power-of-2 increments.
+.sp
+The default behavior 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 behavior.
+.TP
+.BR 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.
+.sp
+The default behavior is determined by the on-disk feature
+bit indicating that attr2 behavior is active. If either
+mount option it set, then that becomes the new default used
+by the filesystem.
+.sp
+CRC enabled filesystems always use the attr2 format, and so
+will reject the noattr2 mount option if it is set.
+.TP
+.BR 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.
+.TP
+.BR 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.
+.sp
+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.
+.TP
+.BR 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.
+.TP
+.B filestreams
+Make the data allocator use the filestreams allocation mode
+across the entire filesystem rather than just on directories
+configured to use it.
+.TP
+.BR 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.
+.TP
+.BR 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.
+.sp
+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.
+.sp
+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.
+.TP
+.BR  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.
+.sp
+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 behavior
+is the same as if "nolargeio" was specified.
+.TP
+.B logbufs=value
+Set the number of in-memory log buffers.  Valid numbers
+range from 2\(en8 inclusive.
+.sp
+The default value is 8 buffers.
+.sp
+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.
+.TP
+.B logbsize=value
+Set the size of each in-memory log buffer.  The size may be
+specified in bytes, or in kibibytes (KiB) with a "k" suffix.
+Valid sizes for version 1 and version 2 logs are 16384 (value=16k)
+and 32768 (value=32k).  Valid sizes for version 2 logs also
+include 65536 (value=64k), 131072 (value=128k) and 262144 (value=256k). The
+logbsize must be an integer multiple of the log
+stripe unit configured at mkfs time.
+.sp
+The default value for version 1 logs is 32768, while the
+default value for version 2 logs is MAX(32768, log_sunit).
+.TP
+.BR 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.
+.TP
+.B 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.
+.TP
+.B 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.
+.TP
+.B 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.
+.TP
+.B noquota
+Forcibly turns off all quota accounting and enforcement
+within the filesystem.
+.TP
+.B uquota/usrquota/uqnoenforce/quota
+User disk quota accounting enabled, and limits (optionally)
+enforced.  Refer to xfs_quota(8) for further details.
+.TP
+.B gquota/grpquota/gqnoenforce
+Group disk quota accounting enabled and limits (optionally)
+enforced.  Refer to xfs_quota(8) for further details.
+.TP
+.B pquota/prjquota/pqnoenforce
+Project disk quota accounting enabled and limits (optionally)
+enforced.  Refer to xfs_quota(8) for further details.
+.TP
+.BR 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.
+.sp
+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.
+.sp
+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.
+.TP
+.B 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.
+.TP
+.B 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.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR xfsctl (3),
 .BR mount (8),

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* [PATCH 2/2] xfsprogs: indicate default mount options in xfs.5 manpage
  2014-06-11 20:02 [PATCH 1/2] xfsprogs: add mount options to xfs.5 manpage Eric Sandeen
@ 2014-06-11 20:04 ` Eric Sandeen
  2014-06-11 23:16   ` Dave Chinner
  2014-06-16  9:40   ` Christoph Hellwig
  2014-06-11 23:15 ` [PATCH 1/2] xfsprogs: add mount options to " Dave Chinner
  2014-06-16  9:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
  2 siblings, 2 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Eric Sandeen @ 2014-06-11 20:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Eric Sandeen, xfs-oss, Karel Zak

Not every pair of mount options indicated which was the
default, so add those.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
---

diff --git a/man/man5/xfs.5 b/man/man5/xfs.5
index 1729e38..528d99c 100644
--- a/man/man5/xfs.5
+++ b/man/man5/xfs.5
@@ -137,6 +137,8 @@ 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.
+.sp
+Barriers are enabled by default.
 .TP
 .BR discard | nodiscard
 Enable/disable the issuing of commands to let the block
@@ -147,7 +149,7 @@ 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.
+is quite severe.  For this reason, nodiscard is the default.
 .TP
 .BR grpid | bsdgroups | nogrpid | sysvgroups
 These options define what group ID a newly created file
@@ -167,7 +169,7 @@ configured to use it.
 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.
+space pool.  noikeep is the default.
 .TP
 .BR inode32 | inode64
 When inode32 is specified, it indicates that XFS limits
@@ -185,6 +187,8 @@ 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.
+.sp
+For kernel v3.7 and later, inode64 is the default.
 .TP
 .BR  largeio | nolargeio
 If "nolargeio" is specified, the optimal I/O reported in
@@ -198,7 +202,8 @@ If "largeio" specified, a filesystem that was created with a
 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 behavior
-is the same as if "nolargeio" was specified.
+is the same as if "nolargeio" was specified.  nolargeio
+is the default.
 .TP
 .B logbufs=value
 Set the number of in-memory log buffers.  Valid numbers

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* Re: [PATCH 1/2] xfsprogs: add mount options to xfs.5 manpage
  2014-06-11 20:02 [PATCH 1/2] xfsprogs: add mount options to xfs.5 manpage Eric Sandeen
  2014-06-11 20:04 ` [PATCH 2/2] xfsprogs: indicate default mount options in " Eric Sandeen
@ 2014-06-11 23:15 ` Dave Chinner
  2014-06-16  9:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Dave Chinner @ 2014-06-11 23:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Eric Sandeen; +Cc: Karel Zak, xfs-oss

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 03:02:53PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> This is a straight cut and paste from the util-linux
> mount manpage to xfs.5.

Which is pretty much a straight cut and paste from the kernel
Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt file....

> 
> It's pretty much impossible for util-linux to keep up
> with every filesystem out there, and Karel has more than
> once expressed a wish that mount options move into fs-specific
> manpages.

As have I. ;)

> So, here we go.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>

A quick read of the source looks fine. I'll apply it and review
the produced output later today....

Cheers,

Dave.
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* Re: [PATCH 2/2] xfsprogs: indicate default mount options in xfs.5 manpage
  2014-06-11 20:04 ` [PATCH 2/2] xfsprogs: indicate default mount options in " Eric Sandeen
@ 2014-06-11 23:16   ` Dave Chinner
  2014-06-16  9:40   ` Christoph Hellwig
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Dave Chinner @ 2014-06-11 23:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Eric Sandeen; +Cc: Eric Sandeen, Karel Zak, xfs-oss

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 03:04:25PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Not every pair of mount options indicated which was the
> default, so add those.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>

Seems fine, too.

Cheers,

Dave.
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* Re: [PATCH 1/2] xfsprogs: add mount options to xfs.5 manpage
  2014-06-11 20:02 [PATCH 1/2] xfsprogs: add mount options to xfs.5 manpage Eric Sandeen
  2014-06-11 20:04 ` [PATCH 2/2] xfsprogs: indicate default mount options in " Eric Sandeen
  2014-06-11 23:15 ` [PATCH 1/2] xfsprogs: add mount options to " Dave Chinner
@ 2014-06-16  9:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2014-06-16  9:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Eric Sandeen; +Cc: Karel Zak, xfs-oss

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 03:02:53PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> This is a straight cut and paste from the util-linux
> mount manpage to xfs.5.
> 
> It's pretty much impossible for util-linux to keep up
> with every filesystem out there, and Karel has more than
> once expressed a wish that mount options move into fs-specific
> manpages.
> 
> So, here we go.

Looks reasonable, but it seems there it seems to lack documentation
for the biosize option.  Also it would be good to mention which
options could be changed using remount, as our limited set for that
seems to confuse users a lot.

Is it worth mentioning the various deprecated options thast the kernel
just warns about now?

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* Re: [PATCH 2/2] xfsprogs: indicate default mount options in xfs.5 manpage
  2014-06-11 20:04 ` [PATCH 2/2] xfsprogs: indicate default mount options in " Eric Sandeen
  2014-06-11 23:16   ` Dave Chinner
@ 2014-06-16  9:40   ` Christoph Hellwig
  2014-06-16 14:29     ` Eric Sandeen
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2014-06-16  9:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Eric Sandeen; +Cc: Eric Sandeen, Karel Zak, xfs-oss

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 03:04:25PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Not every pair of mount options indicated which was the
> default, so add those.

Looks good, but why have this separate from the previous patch?

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* Re: [PATCH 2/2] xfsprogs: indicate default mount options in xfs.5 manpage
  2014-06-16  9:40   ` Christoph Hellwig
@ 2014-06-16 14:29     ` Eric Sandeen
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Eric Sandeen @ 2014-06-16 14:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Christoph Hellwig; +Cc: Eric Sandeen, Karel Zak, xfs-oss

On 6/16/14, 4:40 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 03:04:25PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> Not every pair of mount options indicated which was the
>> default, so add those.
> 
> Looks good, but why have this separate from the previous patch?
> 

just to keep the move separate from any "functional" changes.

-Eric

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