| OCFS2 filesystem |
| ================== |
| OCFS2 is a general purpose extent based shared disk cluster file |
| system with many similarities to ext3. It supports 64 bit inode |
| numbers, and has automatically extending metadata groups which may |
| also make it attractive for non-clustered use. |
| |
| You'll want to install the ocfs2-tools package in order to at least |
| get "mount.ocfs2" and "ocfs2_hb_ctl". |
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| Project web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2 |
| Tools web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2-tools |
| OCFS2 mailing lists: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/mailman/ |
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| All code copyright 2005 Oracle except when otherwise noted. |
| |
| CREDITS: |
| Lots of code taken from ext3 and other projects. |
| |
| Authors in alphabetical order: |
| Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> |
| Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> |
| Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> |
| Kurt Hackel <kurt.hackel@oracle.com> |
| Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com> |
| Manish Singh <manish.singh@oracle.com> |
| |
| Caveats |
| ======= |
| Features which OCFS2 does not support yet: |
| - extended attributes |
| - quotas |
| - cluster aware flock |
| - cluster aware lockf |
| - Directory change notification (F_NOTIFY) |
| - Distributed Caching (F_SETLEASE/F_GETLEASE/break_lease) |
| - POSIX ACLs |
| |
| Mount options |
| ============= |
| |
| OCFS2 supports the following mount options: |
| (*) == default |
| |
| barrier=1 This enables/disables barriers. barrier=0 disables it, |
| barrier=1 enables it. |
| errors=remount-ro(*) Remount the filesystem read-only on an error. |
| errors=panic Panic and halt the machine if an error occurs. |
| intr (*) Allow signals to interrupt cluster operations. |
| nointr Do not allow signals to interrupt cluster |
| operations. |
| atime_quantum=60(*) OCFS2 will not update atime unless this number |
| of seconds has passed since the last update. |
| Set to zero to always update atime. |
| data=ordered (*) All data are forced directly out to the main file |
| system prior to its metadata being committed to the |
| journal. |
| data=writeback Data ordering is not preserved, data may be written |
| into the main file system after its metadata has been |
| committed to the journal. |
| preferred_slot=0(*) During mount, try to use this filesystem slot first. If |
| it is in use by another node, the first empty one found |
| will be chosen. Invalid values will be ignored. |
| commit=nrsec (*) Ocfs2 can be told to sync all its data and metadata |
| every 'nrsec' seconds. The default value is 5 seconds. |
| This means that if you lose your power, you will lose |
| as much as the latest 5 seconds of work (your |
| filesystem will not be damaged though, thanks to the |
| journaling). This default value (or any low value) |
| will hurt performance, but it's good for data-safety. |
| Setting it to 0 will have the same effect as leaving |
| it at the default (5 seconds). |
| Setting it to very large values will improve |
| performance. |
| localalloc=8(*) Allows custom localalloc size in MB. If the value is too |
| large, the fs will silently revert it to the default. |
| Localalloc is not enabled for local mounts. |
| localflocks This disables cluster aware flock. |
