Commit 720c2fc1 authored by Mauro Carvalho Chehab's avatar Mauro Carvalho Chehab Committed by Jonathan Corbet
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docs: filesystems: convert gfs2.txt to ReST 



- Add a SPDX header;
- Adjust document title;
- Some whitespace fixes and new line breaks;
- Mark literal blocks as such;
- Add table markups;
- Add it to filesystems/index.rst.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarBob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/6d7a296de025bcfed7a229da7f8cc1678944f304.1581955849.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent 89272ca1

Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt→Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.rst

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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0



==================

Global File System

------------------

==================



https://fedorahosted.org/cluster/wiki/HomePage
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GFS uses interchangeable inter-node locking mechanisms, the currently

supported mechanisms are:



  lock_nolock -- allows gfs to be used as a local file system

  lock_nolock

    - allows gfs to be used as a local file system



  lock_dlm -- uses a distributed lock manager (dlm) for inter-node locking

  lock_dlm

    - uses a distributed lock manager (dlm) for inter-node locking.

      The dlm is found at linux/fs/dlm/



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:

needed, simply::



  $ mkfs -t gfs2 -p lock_nolock -j 1 /dev/block_device

  $ mount -t gfs2 /dev/block_device /dir
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is pretty close.



The following man pages can be found at the URL above:



  ============		=============================================

  fsck.gfs2		to repair a filesystem

  gfs2_grow		to expand a filesystem online

  gfs2_jadd		to add journals to a filesystem online

  tunegfs2		to manipulate, examine and tune a filesystem

  gfs2_convert		to convert a gfs filesystem to gfs2 in-place

  mkfs.gfs2		to make a filesystem

  ============		=============================================

Documentation/filesystems/index.rst

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   ext2

   ext3

   f2fs

   gfs2

   fuse

   overlayfs

   virtiofs

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