Commit e9ccb73a authored by Steven Whitehouse's avatar Steven Whitehouse
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GFS2: Update docs



Update a few things which were out of date, and fix a typo.

Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ go_lock | Called for the first local holder of a lock
go_unlock        | Called on the final local unlock of a lock
go_dump          | Called to print content of object for debugfs file, or on
                 | error to dump glock to the log.
go_type;         | The type of the glock, LM_TYPE_.....
go_type          | The type of the glock, LM_TYPE_.....
go_min_hold_time | The minimum hold time

The minimum hold time for each lock is the time after a remote lock
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@@ -11,18 +11,15 @@ their I/O so file system consistency is maintained. One of the nifty
features of GFS is perfect consistency -- changes made to the file system
on one machine show up immediately on all other machines in the cluster.

GFS uses interchangable inter-node locking mechanisms.  Different lock
modules can plug into GFS and each file system selects the appropriate
lock module at mount time.  Lock modules include:
GFS uses interchangable inter-node locking mechanisms, the currently
supported mechanisms are:

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

  lock_dlm -- uses a distributed lock manager (dlm) for inter-node locking
  The dlm is found at linux/fs/dlm/

In addition to interfacing with an external locking manager, a gfs lock
module is responsible for interacting with external cluster management
systems.  Lock_dlm depends on user space cluster management systems found
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
@@ -31,13 +28,19 @@ needed, simply:
  $ mkfs -t gfs2 -p lock_nolock -j 1 /dev/block_device
  $ mount -t gfs2 /dev/block_device /dir

GFS2 is not on-disk compatible with previous versions of GFS.
If you are using Fedora, you need to install the gfs2-utils package
and, for lock_dlm, you will also need to install the cman package
and write a cluster.conf as per the documentation.

GFS2 is not on-disk compatible with previous versions of GFS, but it
is pretty close.

The following man pages can be found at the URL above:
  gfs2_fsck	to repair a filesystem
  fsck.gfs2	to repair a filesystem
  gfs2_grow	to expand a filesystem online
  gfs2_jadd	to add journals to a filesystem online
  gfs2_tool	to manipulate, examine and tune a filesystem
  gfs2_quota	to examine and change quota values in a filesystem
  gfs2_convert	to convert a gfs filesystem to gfs2 in-place
  mount.gfs2	to help mount(8) mount a filesystem
  mkfs.gfs2	to make a filesystem