linux-stable/Documentation/filesystems/ufs.txt
Evgeniy Dushistov cbcae39fa1 [PATCH] ufs2 write: mount as rw
These series of patches add UFS2 write-support.  UFS2 - is default file system
for recent versions of FreeBSD.

The main differences from UFS1 from write support point of view
are:
1)Not all inodes are allocated during formatation of disk.
2)All meta-data(pointer to data blocks) are 64bit(in UFS1 they
are 32bit).

So patch series consist of
1)make possible mount UFS2 in read-write mode
2)code to write ufs2 inodes and code to initialize inodes chunks.
3)work with 64bit meta-data

I made simple testing like create/deleting/writing/reading/truncating, also I
ran fsx-linux and untar and build kernel on UFS1 and UFS2, after that FreeBSD
fsck do not find any errors in fs.

This patch makes possible to mount ufs2 "rw", and updates UFS2 documentation:
remove note about bug(it fixed by reallocate blocks on the fly patch) and add
me in the list of people who want receive bug reports.

Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-12 09:48:40 -08:00

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USING UFS
=========
mount -t ufs -o ufstype=type_of_ufs device dir
UFS OPTIONS
===========
ufstype=type_of_ufs
UFS is a file system widely used in different operating systems.
The problem are differences among implementations. Features of
some implementations are undocumented, so its hard to recognize
type of ufs automatically. That's why user must specify type of
ufs manually by mount option ufstype. Possible values are:
old old format of ufs
default value, supported as read-only
44bsd used in FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD
supported as read-write
ufs2 used in FreeBSD 5.x
supported as read-write
5xbsd synonym for ufs2
sun used in SunOS (Solaris)
supported as read-write
sunx86 used in SunOS for Intel (Solarisx86)
supported as read-write
hp used in HP-UX
supported as read-only
nextstep
used in NextStep
supported as read-only
nextstep-cd
used for NextStep CDROMs (block_size == 2048)
supported as read-only
openstep
used in OpenStep
supported as read-only
POSSIBLE PROBLEMS
=================
See next section, if you have any.
BUG REPORTS
===========
Any ufs bug report you can send to daniel.pirkl@email.cz or
to dushistov@mail.ru (do not send partition tables bug reports).