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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt index b91e2f26b67..51afba17bba 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt @@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ according to its internal geometry or flash memory management scheme, namely FTL F2FS and its tools support various parameters not only for configuring on-disk layout, but also for selecting allocation and cleaning algorithms. -The file system formatting tool, "mkfs.f2fs", is available from the following -git tree: +The following git tree provides the file system formatting tool (mkfs.f2fs), +a consistency checking tool (fsck.f2fs), and a debugging tool (dump.f2fs). >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs-tools.git For reporting bugs and sending patches, please use the following mailing list: @@ -119,6 +119,13 @@ active_logs=%u Support configuring the number of active logs. In the Default number is 6. disable_ext_identify Disable the extension list configured by mkfs, so f2fs does not aware of cold files such as media files. +inline_xattr Enable the inline xattrs feature. +inline_data Enable the inline data feature: New created small(<~3.4k) + files can be written into inode block. +flush_merge Merge concurrent cache_flush commands as much as possible + to eliminate redundant command issues. If the underlying + device handles the cache_flush command relatively slowly, + recommend to enable this option. ================================================================================ DEBUGFS ENTRIES @@ -133,6 +140,79 @@ f2fs. Each file shows the whole f2fs information. - current memory footprint consumed by f2fs. ================================================================================ +SYSFS ENTRIES +================================================================================ + +Information about mounted f2f2 file systems can be found in +/sys/fs/f2fs. Each mounted filesystem will have a directory in +/sys/fs/f2fs based on its device name (i.e., /sys/fs/f2fs/sda). +The files in each per-device directory are shown in table below. + +Files in /sys/fs/f2fs/<devname> +(see also Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs) +.............................................................................. + File Content + + gc_max_sleep_time This tuning parameter controls the maximum sleep + time for the garbage collection thread. Time is + in milliseconds. + + gc_min_sleep_time This tuning parameter controls the minimum sleep + time for the garbage collection thread. Time is + in milliseconds. + + gc_no_gc_sleep_time This tuning parameter controls the default sleep + time for the garbage collection thread. Time is + in milliseconds. + + gc_idle This parameter controls the selection of victim + policy for garbage collection. Setting gc_idle = 0 + (default) will disable this option. Setting + gc_idle = 1 will select the Cost Benefit approach + & setting gc_idle = 2 will select the greedy aproach. + + reclaim_segments This parameter controls the number of prefree + segments to be reclaimed. If the number of prefree + segments is larger than the number of segments + in the proportion to the percentage over total + volume size, f2fs tries to conduct checkpoint to + reclaim the prefree segments to free segments. + By default, 5% over total # of segments. + + max_small_discards This parameter controls the number of discard + commands that consist small blocks less than 2MB. + The candidates to be discarded are cached until + checkpoint is triggered, and issued during the + checkpoint. By default, it is disabled with 0. + + ipu_policy This parameter controls the policy of in-place + updates in f2fs. There are five policies: + 0: F2FS_IPU_FORCE, 1: F2FS_IPU_SSR, + 2: F2FS_IPU_UTIL, 3: F2FS_IPU_SSR_UTIL, + 4: F2FS_IPU_DISABLE. + + min_ipu_util This parameter controls the threshold to trigger + in-place-updates. The number indicates percentage + of the filesystem utilization, and used by + F2FS_IPU_UTIL and F2FS_IPU_SSR_UTIL policies. + + max_victim_search This parameter controls the number of trials to + find a victim segment when conducting SSR and + cleaning operations. The default value is 4096 + which covers 8GB block address range. + + dir_level This parameter controls the directory level to + support large directory. If a directory has a + number of files, it can reduce the file lookup + latency by increasing this dir_level value. + Otherwise, it needs to decrease this value to + reduce the space overhead. The default value is 0. + + ram_thresh This parameter controls the memory footprint used + by free nids and cached nat entries. By default, + 10 is set, which indicates 10 MB / 1 GB RAM. + +================================================================================ USAGE ================================================================================ @@ -149,8 +229,12 @@ USAGE # mkfs.f2fs -l label /dev/block_device # mount -t f2fs /dev/block_device /mnt/f2fs -Format options --------------- +mkfs.f2fs +--------- +The mkfs.f2fs is for the use of formatting a partition as the f2fs filesystem, +which builds a basic on-disk layout. + +The options consist of: -l [label] : Give a volume label, up to 512 unicode name. -a [0 or 1] : Split start location of each area for heap-based allocation. 1 is set by default, which performs this. @@ -164,6 +248,37 @@ Format options -t [0 or 1] : Disable discard command or not. 1 is set by default, which conducts discard. +fsck.f2fs +--------- +The fsck.f2fs is a tool to check the consistency of an f2fs-formatted +partition, which examines whether the filesystem metadata and user-made data +are cross-referenced correctly or not. +Note that, initial version of the tool does not fix any inconsistency. + +The options consist of: + -d debug level [default:0] + +dump.f2fs +--------- +The dump.f2fs shows the information of specific inode and dumps SSA and SIT to +file. Each file is dump_ssa and dump_sit. + +The dump.f2fs is used to debug on-disk data structures of the f2fs filesystem. +It shows on-disk inode information reconized by a given inode number, and is +able to dump all the SSA and SIT entries into predefined files, ./dump_ssa and +./dump_sit respectively. + +The options consist of: + -d debug level [default:0] + -i inode no (hex) + -s [SIT dump segno from #1~#2 (decimal), for all 0~-1] + -a [SSA dump segno from #1~#2 (decimal), for all 0~-1] + +Examples: +# dump.f2fs -i [ino] /dev/sdx +# dump.f2fs -s 0~-1 /dev/sdx (SIT dump) +# dump.f2fs -a 0~-1 /dev/sdx (SSA dump) + ================================================================================ DESIGN ================================================================================ @@ -346,9 +461,11 @@ The number of blocks and buckets are determined by, # of blocks in level #n = | `- 4, Otherwise - ,- 2^n, if n < MAX_DIR_HASH_DEPTH / 2, + ,- 2^(n + dir_level), + | if n + dir_level < MAX_DIR_HASH_DEPTH / 2, # of buckets in level #n = | - `- 2^((MAX_DIR_HASH_DEPTH / 2) - 1), Otherwise + `- 2^((MAX_DIR_HASH_DEPTH / 2) - 1), + Otherwise When F2FS finds a file name in a directory, at first a hash value of the file name is calculated. Then, F2FS scans the hash table in level #0 to find the |