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Message-ID: <20061129082019.GB11084@stusta.de> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:20:19 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de> To: hch@...radead.org Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: [2.6 patch] fs/sysv/: remove obsolete documents This patch removes two different changelog files from fs/sysv/ and moves the INTRO file to Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs-intro.txt Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de> --- Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX | 2 Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs-intro.txt | 182 -------------------- fs/sysv/CHANGES | 60 ------ fs/sysv/ChangeLog | 106 ----------- fs/sysv/INTRO | 182 -------------------- 5 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 530 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.19-rc6-mm2/fs/sysv/CHANGES 2006-09-20 05:42:06.000000000 +0200 +++ /dev/null 2006-09-19 00:45:31.000000000 +0200 @@ -1,60 +0,0 @@ -Mon, 15 Dec 1997 Krzysztof G. Baranowski <kgb@...jak.knm.org.pl> - * namei.c: struct sysv_dir_inode_operations updated to use dentries. - -Fri, 23 Jan 1998 Krzysztof G. Baranowski <kgb@...jak.knm.org.pl> - * inode.c: corrected 1 track offset setting (in sb->sv_block_base). - Originally it was overridden (by setting to zero) - in detected_[xenix,sysv4,sysv2,coherent]. Thanks - to Andrzej Krzysztofowicz <ankry@....pg.gda.pl> - for identifying the problem. - -Tue, 27 Jan 1998 Krzysztof G. Baranowski <kgb@...jak.knm.org.pl> - * inode.c: added 2048-byte block support to SystemV FS. - Merged detected_bs[512,1024,2048]() into one function: - void detected_bs (u_char type, struct super_block *sb). - Thanks to Andrzej Krzysztofowicz <ankry@....pg.gda.pl> - for the patch. - -Wed, 4 Feb 1998 Krzysztof G. Baranowski <kgb@...jak.knm.org.pl> - * namei.c: removed static subdir(); is_subdir() from dcache.c - is used instead. Cosmetic changes. - -Thu, 3 Dec 1998 Al Viro (viro@...celfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk) - * namei.c (sysv_rmdir): - Bugectomy: old check for victim being busy - (inode->i_count) wasn't replaced (with checking - dentry->d_count) and escaped Linus in the last round - of changes. Shot and buried. - -Wed, 9 Dec 1998 AV - * namei.c (do_sysv_rename): - Fixed incorrect check for other owners + race. - Removed checks that went to VFS. - * namei.c (sysv_unlink): - Removed checks that went to VFS. - -Thu, 10 Dec 1998 AV - * namei.c (do_mknod): - Removed dead code - mknod is never asked to - create a symlink or directory. Incidentially, - it wouldn't do it right if it would be called. - -Sat, 26 Dec 1998 KGB - * inode.c (detect_sysv4): - Added detection of expanded s_type field (0x10, - 0x20 and 0x30). Forced read-only access in this case. - -Sun, 21 Mar 1999 AV - * namei.c (sysv_link): - Fixed i_count usage that resulted in dcache corruption. - * inode.c: - Filled ->delete_inode() method with sysv_delete_inode(). - sysv_put_inode() is gone, as it tried to do ->delete_ - _inode()'s job. - * ialloc.c: (sysv_free_inode): - Fixed race. - -Sun, 30 Apr 1999 AV - * namei.c (sysv_mknod): - Removed dead code (S_IFREG case is now passed to - ->create() by VFS). --- linux-2.6.19-rc6-mm2/fs/sysv/ChangeLog 2006-09-20 05:42:06.000000000 +0200 +++ /dev/null 2006-09-19 00:45:31.000000000 +0200 @@ -1,106 +0,0 @@ -Thu Feb 14 2002 Andrew Morton <akpm@....com.au> - - * dir_commit_chunk(): call writeout_one_page() as well as - waitfor_one_page() for IS_SYNC directories, so that we - actually do sync the directory. (forward-port from 2.4). - -Thu Feb 7 2002 Alexander Viro <viro@...celfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> - - * super.c: switched to ->get_sb() - * ChangeLog: fixed dates ;-) - -2002-01-24 David S. Miller <davem@...hat.com> - - * inode.c: Include linux/init.h - -Mon Jan 21 2002 Alexander Viro <viro@...celfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> - * ialloc.c (sysv_new_inode): zero SYSV_I(inode)->i_data out. - * i_vnode renamed to vfs_inode. Sorry, but let's keep that - consistent. - -Sat Jan 19 2002 Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> - - * include/linux/sysv_fs.h (SYSV_I): Get fs-private inode data using - list_entry() instead of inode->u. - * include/linux/sysv_fs_i.h: Add 'struct inode i_vnode' field to - sysv_inode_info structure. - * inode.c: Include <linux/slab.h>, implement alloc_inode/destroy_inode - sop methods, add infrastructure for per-fs inode slab cache. - * super.c (init_sysv_fs): Initialize inode cache, recover properly - in the case of failed register_filesystem for V7. - (exit_sysv_fs): Destroy inode cache. - -Sat Jan 19 2002 Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> - - * include/linux/sysv_fs.h: Include <linux/sysv_fs_i.h>, declare SYSV_I(). - * dir.c (sysv_find_entry): Use SYSV_I() instead of ->u.sysv_i to - access fs-private inode data. - * ialloc.c (sysv_new_inode): Likewise. - * inode.c (sysv_read_inode): Likewise. - (sysv_update_inode): Likewise. - * itree.c (get_branch): Likewise. - (sysv_truncate): Likewise. - * symlink.c (sysv_readlink): Likewise. - (sysv_follow_link): Likewise. - -Fri Jan 4 2002 Alexander Viro <viro@...celfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> - - * ialloc.c (sysv_free_inode): Use sb->s_id instead of bdevname(). - * inode.c (sysv_read_inode): Likewise. - (sysv_update_inode): Likewise. - (sysv_sync_inode): Likewise. - * super.c (detect_sysv): Likewise. - (complete_read_super): Likewise. - (sysv_read_super): Likewise. - (v7_read_super): Likewise. - -Sun Dec 30 2001 Manfred Spraul <manfred@...orfullife.com> - - * dir.c (dir_commit_chunk): Do not set dir->i_version. - (sysv_readdir): Likewise. - -Thu Dec 27 2001 Alexander Viro <viro@...celfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> - - * itree.c (get_block): Use map_bh() to fill out bh_result. - -Tue Dec 25 2001 Alexander Viro <viro@...celfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> - - * super.c (sysv_read_super): Use sb_set_blocksize() to set blocksize. - (v7_read_super): Likewise. - -Tue Nov 27 2001 Alexander Viro <viro@...celfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> - - * itree.c (get_block): Change type for iblock argument to sector_t. - * super.c (sysv_read_super): Set s_blocksize early. - (v7_read_super): Likewise. - * balloc.c (sysv_new_block): Use sb_bread(). instead of bread(). - (sysv_count_free_blocks): Likewise. - * ialloc.c (sysv_raw_inode): Likewise. - * itree.c (get_branch): Likewise. - (free_branches): Likewise. - * super.c (sysv_read_super): Likewise. - (v7_read_super): Likewise. - -Sat Dec 15 2001 Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> - - * inode.c (sysv_read_inode): Mark inode as bad in case of failure. - * super.c (complete_read_super): Check for bad root inode. - -Wed Nov 21 2001 Andrew Morton <andrewm@....edu.au> - - * file.c (sysv_sync_file): Call fsync_inode_data_buffers. - -Fri Oct 26 2001 Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> - - * dir.c, ialloc.c, namei.c, include/linux/sysv_fs_i.h: - Implement per-Inode lookup offset cache. - Modelled after Ted's ext2 patch. - -Fri Oct 26 2001 Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> - - * inode.c, super.c, include/linux/sysv_fs.h, - include/linux/sysv_fs_sb.h: - Remove symlink faking. Noone really wants to use these as - linux filesystems and native OSes don't support it anyway. - - --- linux-2.6.19-rc6-mm2/fs/sysv/INTRO 2006-09-20 05:42:06.000000000 +0200 +++ /dev/null 2006-09-19 00:45:31.000000000 +0200 @@ -1,182 +0,0 @@ -This is the implementation of the SystemV/Coherent filesystem for Linux. -It grew out of separate filesystem implementations - - Xenix FS Doug Evans <dje@...nus.com> June 1992 - SystemV FS Paul B. Monday <pmonday@...s.wsu.edu> March-June 1993 - Coherent FS B. Haible <haible@...s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de> June 1993 - -and was merged together in July 1993. - -These filesystems are rather similar. Here is a comparison with Minix FS: - -* Linux fdisk reports on partitions - - Minix FS 0x81 Linux/Minix - - Xenix FS ?? - - SystemV FS ?? - - Coherent FS 0x08 AIX bootable - -* Size of a block or zone (data allocation unit on disk) - - Minix FS 1024 - - Xenix FS 1024 (also 512 ??) - - SystemV FS 1024 (also 512 and 2048) - - Coherent FS 512 - -* General layout: all have one boot block, one super block and - separate areas for inodes and for directories/data. - On SystemV Release 2 FS (e.g. Microport) the first track is reserved and - all the block numbers (including the super block) are offset by one track. - -* Byte ordering of "short" (16 bit entities) on disk: - - Minix FS little endian 0 1 - - Xenix FS little endian 0 1 - - SystemV FS little endian 0 1 - - Coherent FS little endian 0 1 - Of course, this affects only the file system, not the data of files on it! - -* Byte ordering of "long" (32 bit entities) on disk: - - Minix FS little endian 0 1 2 3 - - Xenix FS little endian 0 1 2 3 - - SystemV FS little endian 0 1 2 3 - - Coherent FS PDP-11 2 3 0 1 - Of course, this affects only the file system, not the data of files on it! - -* Inode on disk: "short", 0 means non-existent, the root dir ino is: - - Minix FS 1 - - Xenix FS, SystemV FS, Coherent FS 2 - -* Maximum number of hard links to a file: - - Minix FS 250 - - Xenix FS ?? - - SystemV FS ?? - - Coherent FS >=10000 - -* Free inode management: - - Minix FS a bitmap - - Xenix FS, SystemV FS, Coherent FS - There is a cache of a certain number of free inodes in the super-block. - When it is exhausted, new free inodes are found using a linear search. - -* Free block management: - - Minix FS a bitmap - - Xenix FS, SystemV FS, Coherent FS - Free blocks are organized in a "free list". Maybe a misleading term, - since it is not true that every free block contains a pointer to - the next free block. Rather, the free blocks are organized in chunks - of limited size, and every now and then a free block contains pointers - to the free blocks pertaining to the next chunk; the first of these - contains pointers and so on. The list terminates with a "block number" - 0 on Xenix FS and SystemV FS, with a block zeroed out on Coherent FS. - -* Super-block location: - - Minix FS block 1 = bytes 1024..2047 - - Xenix FS block 1 = bytes 1024..2047 - - SystemV FS bytes 512..1023 - - Coherent FS block 1 = bytes 512..1023 - -* Super-block layout: - - Minix FS - unsigned short s_ninodes; - unsigned short s_nzones; - unsigned short s_imap_blocks; - unsigned short s_zmap_blocks; - unsigned short s_firstdatazone; - unsigned short s_log_zone_size; - unsigned long s_max_size; - unsigned short s_magic; - - Xenix FS, SystemV FS, Coherent FS - unsigned short s_firstdatazone; - unsigned long s_nzones; - unsigned short s_fzone_count; - unsigned long s_fzones[NICFREE]; - unsigned short s_finode_count; - unsigned short s_finodes[NICINOD]; - char s_flock; - char s_ilock; - char s_modified; - char s_rdonly; - unsigned long s_time; - short s_dinfo[4]; -- SystemV FS only - unsigned long s_free_zones; - unsigned short s_free_inodes; - short s_dinfo[4]; -- Xenix FS only - unsigned short s_interleave_m,s_interleave_n; -- Coherent FS only - char s_fname[6]; - char s_fpack[6]; - then they differ considerably: - Xenix FS - char s_clean; - char s_fill[371]; - long s_magic; - long s_type; - SystemV FS - long s_fill[12 or 14]; - long s_state; - long s_magic; - long s_type; - Coherent FS - unsigned long s_unique; - Note that Coherent FS has no magic. - -* Inode layout: - - Minix FS - unsigned short i_mode; - unsigned short i_uid; - unsigned long i_size; - unsigned long i_time; - unsigned char i_gid; - unsigned char i_nlinks; - unsigned short i_zone[7+1+1]; - - Xenix FS, SystemV FS, Coherent FS - unsigned short i_mode; - unsigned short i_nlink; - unsigned short i_uid; - unsigned short i_gid; - unsigned long i_size; - unsigned char i_zone[3*(10+1+1+1)]; - unsigned long i_atime; - unsigned long i_mtime; - unsigned long i_ctime; - -* Regular file data blocks are organized as - - Minix FS - 7 direct blocks - 1 indirect block (pointers to blocks) - 1 double-indirect block (pointer to pointers to blocks) - - Xenix FS, SystemV FS, Coherent FS - 10 direct blocks - 1 indirect block (pointers to blocks) - 1 double-indirect block (pointer to pointers to blocks) - 1 triple-indirect block (pointer to pointers to pointers to blocks) - -* Inode size, inodes per block - - Minix FS 32 32 - - Xenix FS 64 16 - - SystemV FS 64 16 - - Coherent FS 64 8 - -* Directory entry on disk - - Minix FS - unsigned short inode; - char name[14/30]; - - Xenix FS, SystemV FS, Coherent FS - unsigned short inode; - char name[14]; - -* Dir entry size, dir entries per block - - Minix FS 16/32 64/32 - - Xenix FS 16 64 - - SystemV FS 16 64 - - Coherent FS 16 32 - -* How to implement symbolic links such that the host fsck doesn't scream: - - Minix FS normal - - Xenix FS kludge: as regular files with chmod 1000 - - SystemV FS ?? - - Coherent FS kludge: as regular files with chmod 1000 - - -Notation: We often speak of a "block" but mean a zone (the allocation unit) -and not the disk driver's notion of "block". - - -Bruno Haible <haible@...s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de> --- linux-2.6.19-rc6-mm2/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX.old 2006-11-29 09:18:31.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.19-rc6-mm2/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX 2006-11-29 09:18:55.000000000 +0100 @@ -76,6 +76,8 @@ - info on sysfs, a ram-based filesystem for exporting kernel objects. sysv-fs.txt - info on the SystemV/V7/Xenix/Coherent filesystem. +sysv-fs-intro.txt + - more info on the SystemV/V7/Xenix/Coherent filesystem. tmpfs.txt - info on tmpfs, a filesystem that holds all files in virtual memory. udf.txt --- linux-2.6.19-rc6-mm2/Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs-intro.txt 2006-11-29 09:18:08.000000000 +0100 +++ /dev/null 2006-09-19 00:45:31.000000000 +0200 @@ -1,182 +0,0 @@ -This is the implementation of the SystemV/Coherent filesystem for Linux. -It grew out of separate filesystem implementations - - Xenix FS Doug Evans <dje@...nus.com> June 1992 - SystemV FS Paul B. Monday <pmonday@...s.wsu.edu> March-June 1993 - Coherent FS B. Haible <haible@...s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de> June 1993 - -and was merged together in July 1993. - -These filesystems are rather similar. Here is a comparison with Minix FS: - -* Linux fdisk reports on partitions - - Minix FS 0x81 Linux/Minix - - Xenix FS ?? - - SystemV FS ?? - - Coherent FS 0x08 AIX bootable - -* Size of a block or zone (data allocation unit on disk) - - Minix FS 1024 - - Xenix FS 1024 (also 512 ??) - - SystemV FS 1024 (also 512 and 2048) - - Coherent FS 512 - -* General layout: all have one boot block, one super block and - separate areas for inodes and for directories/data. - On SystemV Release 2 FS (e.g. Microport) the first track is reserved and - all the block numbers (including the super block) are offset by one track. - -* Byte ordering of "short" (16 bit entities) on disk: - - Minix FS little endian 0 1 - - Xenix FS little endian 0 1 - - SystemV FS little endian 0 1 - - Coherent FS little endian 0 1 - Of course, this affects only the file system, not the data of files on it! - -* Byte ordering of "long" (32 bit entities) on disk: - - Minix FS little endian 0 1 2 3 - - Xenix FS little endian 0 1 2 3 - - SystemV FS little endian 0 1 2 3 - - Coherent FS PDP-11 2 3 0 1 - Of course, this affects only the file system, not the data of files on it! - -* Inode on disk: "short", 0 means non-existent, the root dir ino is: - - Minix FS 1 - - Xenix FS, SystemV FS, Coherent FS 2 - -* Maximum number of hard links to a file: - - Minix FS 250 - - Xenix FS ?? - - SystemV FS ?? - - Coherent FS >=10000 - -* Free inode management: - - Minix FS a bitmap - - Xenix FS, SystemV FS, Coherent FS - There is a cache of a certain number of free inodes in the super-block. - When it is exhausted, new free inodes are found using a linear search. - -* Free block management: - - Minix FS a bitmap - - Xenix FS, SystemV FS, Coherent FS - Free blocks are organized in a "free list". Maybe a misleading term, - since it is not true that every free block contains a pointer to - the next free block. Rather, the free blocks are organized in chunks - of limited size, and every now and then a free block contains pointers - to the free blocks pertaining to the next chunk; the first of these - contains pointers and so on. The list terminates with a "block number" - 0 on Xenix FS and SystemV FS, with a block zeroed out on Coherent FS. - -* Super-block location: - - Minix FS block 1 = bytes 1024..2047 - - Xenix FS block 1 = bytes 1024..2047 - - SystemV FS bytes 512..1023 - - Coherent FS block 1 = bytes 512..1023 - -* Super-block layout: - - Minix FS - unsigned short s_ninodes; - unsigned short s_nzones; - unsigned short s_imap_blocks; - unsigned short s_zmap_blocks; - unsigned short s_firstdatazone; - unsigned short s_log_zone_size; - unsigned long s_max_size; - unsigned short s_magic; - - Xenix FS, SystemV FS, Coherent FS - unsigned short s_firstdatazone; - unsigned long s_nzones; - unsigned short s_fzone_count; - unsigned long s_fzones[NICFREE]; - unsigned short s_finode_count; - unsigned short s_finodes[NICINOD]; - char s_flock; - char s_ilock; - char s_modified; - char s_rdonly; - unsigned long s_time; - short s_dinfo[4]; -- SystemV FS only - unsigned long s_free_zones; - unsigned short s_free_inodes; - short s_dinfo[4]; -- Xenix FS only - unsigned short s_interleave_m,s_interleave_n; -- Coherent FS only - char s_fname[6]; - char s_fpack[6]; - then they differ considerably: - Xenix FS - char s_clean; - char s_fill[371]; - long s_magic; - long s_type; - SystemV FS - long s_fill[12 or 14]; - long s_state; - long s_magic; - long s_type; - Coherent FS - unsigned long s_unique; - Note that Coherent FS has no magic. - -* Inode layout: - - Minix FS - unsigned short i_mode; - unsigned short i_uid; - unsigned long i_size; - unsigned long i_time; - unsigned char i_gid; - unsigned char i_nlinks; - unsigned short i_zone[7+1+1]; - - Xenix FS, SystemV FS, Coherent FS - unsigned short i_mode; - unsigned short i_nlink; - unsigned short i_uid; - unsigned short i_gid; - unsigned long i_size; - unsigned char i_zone[3*(10+1+1+1)]; - unsigned long i_atime; - unsigned long i_mtime; - unsigned long i_ctime; - -* Regular file data blocks are organized as - - Minix FS - 7 direct blocks - 1 indirect block (pointers to blocks) - 1 double-indirect block (pointer to pointers to blocks) - - Xenix FS, SystemV FS, Coherent FS - 10 direct blocks - 1 indirect block (pointers to blocks) - 1 double-indirect block (pointer to pointers to blocks) - 1 triple-indirect block (pointer to pointers to pointers to blocks) - -* Inode size, inodes per block - - Minix FS 32 32 - - Xenix FS 64 16 - - SystemV FS 64 16 - - Coherent FS 64 8 - -* Directory entry on disk - - Minix FS - unsigned short inode; - char name[14/30]; - - Xenix FS, SystemV FS, Coherent FS - unsigned short inode; - char name[14]; - -* Dir entry size, dir entries per block - - Minix FS 16/32 64/32 - - Xenix FS 16 64 - - SystemV FS 16 64 - - Coherent FS 16 32 - -* How to implement symbolic links such that the host fsck doesn't scream: - - Minix FS normal - - Xenix FS kludge: as regular files with chmod 1000 - - SystemV FS ?? - - Coherent FS kludge: as regular files with chmod 1000 - - -Notation: We often speak of a "block" but mean a zone (the allocation unit) -and not the disk driver's notion of "block". - - -Bruno Haible <haible@...s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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