| 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: |
| - sparse files |
| - extended attributes |
| - shared writeable mmap |
| - loopback is supported, but data written will not |
| be cluster coherent. |
| - quotas |
| - cluster aware flock |
| - cluster aware lockf |
| - Directory change notification (F_NOTIFY) |
| - Distributed Caching (F_SETLEASE/F_GETLEASE/break_lease) |
| - POSIX ACLs |
| - readpages / writepages (not user visible) |
| |
| 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. |
