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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ceph.txt | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 42 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt | 6 |
4 files changed, 65 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ceph.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ceph.txt index 763d8ebbbeb..d6030aa3337 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ceph.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ceph.txt @@ -119,12 +119,20 @@ Mount Options must rely on TCP's error correction to detect data corruption in the data payload. - noasyncreaddir - Disable client's use its local cache to satisfy readdir - requests. (This does not change correctness; the client uses - cached metadata only when a lease or capability ensures it is - valid.) + dcache + Use the dcache contents to perform negative lookups and + readdir when the client has the entire directory contents in + its cache. (This does not change correctness; the client uses + cached metadata only when a lease or capability ensures it is + valid.) + + nodcache + Do not use the dcache as above. This avoids a significant amount of + complex code, sacrificing performance without affecting correctness, + and is useful for tracking down bugs. + noasyncreaddir + Do not use the dcache as above for readdir. More Information ================ diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt index 4917cf24a5e..10ec4639f15 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt @@ -581,6 +581,13 @@ Table of Ext4 specific ioctls behaviour may change in the future as it is not necessary and has been done this way only for sake of simplicity. + + EXT4_IOC_RESIZE_FS Resize the filesystem to a new size. The number + of blocks of resized filesystem is passed in via + 64 bit integer argument. The kernel allocates + bitmaps and inode table, the userspace tool thus + just passes the new number of blocks. + .............................................................................. References diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 0ec91f03422..a76a26a1db8 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ Table of Contents 3.5 /proc/<pid>/mountinfo - Information about mounts 3.6 /proc/<pid>/comm & /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/comm + 4 Configuring procfs + 4.1 Mount options ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Preface @@ -305,6 +307,9 @@ Table 1-4: Contents of the stat files (as of 2.6.30-rc7) blkio_ticks time spent waiting for block IO gtime guest time of the task in jiffies cgtime guest time of the task children in jiffies + start_data address above which program data+bss is placed + end_data address below which program data+bss is placed + start_brk address above which program heap can be expanded with brk() .............................................................................. The /proc/PID/maps file containing the currently mapped memory regions and @@ -1542,3 +1547,40 @@ a task to set its own or one of its thread siblings comm value. The comm value is limited in size compared to the cmdline value, so writing anything longer then the kernel's TASK_COMM_LEN (currently 16 chars) will result in a truncated comm value. + + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +Configuring procfs +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ + +4.1 Mount options +--------------------- + +The following mount options are supported: + + hidepid= Set /proc/<pid>/ access mode. + gid= Set the group authorized to learn processes information. + +hidepid=0 means classic mode - everybody may access all /proc/<pid>/ directories +(default). + +hidepid=1 means users may not access any /proc/<pid>/ directories but their +own. Sensitive files like cmdline, sched*, status are now protected against +other users. This makes it impossible to learn whether any user runs +specific program (given the program doesn't reveal itself by its behaviour). +As an additional bonus, as /proc/<pid>/cmdline is unaccessible for other users, +poorly written programs passing sensitive information via program arguments are +now protected against local eavesdroppers. + +hidepid=2 means hidepid=1 plus all /proc/<pid>/ will be fully invisible to other +users. It doesn't mean that it hides a fact whether a process with a specific +pid value exists (it can be learned by other means, e.g. by "kill -0 $PID"), +but it hides process' uid and gid, which may be learned by stat()'ing +/proc/<pid>/ otherwise. It greatly complicates an intruder's task of gathering +information about running processes, whether some daemon runs with elevated +privileges, whether other user runs some sensitive program, whether other users +run any program at all, etc. + +gid= defines a group authorized to learn processes information otherwise +prohibited by hidepid=. If you use some daemon like identd which needs to learn +information about processes information, just add identd to this group. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt index 7db3ebda5a4..403c090aca3 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt @@ -93,8 +93,8 @@ byte alignment: Compressed data blocks are written to the filesystem as files are read from the source directory, and checked for duplicates. Once all file data has been -written the completed inode, directory, fragment, export and uid/gid lookup -tables are written. +written the completed inode, directory, fragment, export, uid/gid lookup and +xattr tables are written. 3.1 Compression options ----------------------- @@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ in each metadata block. Directories are sorted in alphabetical order, and at lookup the index is scanned linearly looking for the first filename alphabetically larger than the filename being looked up. At this point the location of the metadata block the filename is in has been found. -The general idea of the index is ensure only one metadata block needs to be +The general idea of the index is to ensure only one metadata block needs to be decompressed to do a lookup irrespective of the length of the directory. This scheme has the advantage that it doesn't require extra memory overhead and doesn't require much extra storage on disk. |