Message-Id: <1244622665-7470-10-git-send-email-swhiteho@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:30:50 +0100
From:	Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cluster-devel@...hat.com
Cc:	Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 09/24] GFS2: Update docs

Update a few things which were out of date, and fix a typo.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-glocks.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-glocks.txt
index 4dae9a3..0494f78 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-glocks.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-glocks.txt
@@ -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
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt
index 593004b..5e3ab8f 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt
@@ -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
-- 
1.6.0.6

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