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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt index 5e3ab8f3bef..cc4f2306609 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Global File System ------------------ -http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/ +https://fedorahosted.org/cluster/wiki/HomePage GFS is a cluster file system. It allows a cluster of computers to simultaneously use a block device that is shared between them (with FC, @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ 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, the currently +GFS uses interchangeable inter-node locking mechanisms, the currently supported mechanisms are: lock_nolock -- allows gfs to be used as a local file system @@ -30,17 +30,16 @@ needed, simply: 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. +and write a cluster.conf as per the documentation. For F17 and above +cman has been replaced by the dlm package. 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: - 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 + fsck.gfs2 to repair a filesystem + gfs2_grow to expand a filesystem online + gfs2_jadd to add journals to a filesystem online + tunegfs2 to manipulate, examine and tune 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 + mkfs.gfs2 to make a filesystem |