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author | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2009-03-31 09:10:09 -0400 |
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committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2009-03-31 09:10:09 -0400 |
commit | 3197ebdb130473a92760100cbfe0d7e671838f48 (patch) | |
tree | 7101dc642e91026a65264adb7845ce3561d691fe /Documentation/ABI | |
parent | afc32f7ee9febc020c73da61402351d4c90437f3 (diff) | |
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ext4: Add sysfs support
Add basic sysfs support so that information about the mounted
filesystem and various tuning parameters can be accessed via
/sys/fs/ext4/<dev>/*.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-ext4 b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-ext4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..4e79074de28 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-ext4 @@ -0,0 +1,81 @@ +What: /sys/fs/ext4/<disk>/mb_stats +Date: March 2008 +Contact: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> +Description: + Controls whether the multiblock allocator should + collect statistics, which are shown during the unmount. + 1 means to collect statistics, 0 means not to collect + statistics + +What: /sys/fs/ext4/<disk>/mb_group_prealloc +Date: March 2008 +Contact: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> +Description: + The multiblock allocator will round up allocation + requests to a multiple of this tuning parameter if the + stripe size is not set in the ext4 superblock + +What: /sys/fs/ext4/<disk>/mb_max_to_scan +Date: March 2008 +Contact: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> +Description: + The maximum number of extents the multiblock allocator + will search to find the best extent + +What: /sys/fs/ext4/<disk>/mb_min_to_scan +Date: March 2008 +Contact: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> +Description: + The minimum number of extents the multiblock allocator + will search to find the best extent + +What: /sys/fs/ext4/<disk>/mb_order2_req +Date: March 2008 +Contact: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> +Description: + Tuning parameter which controls the minimum size for + requests (as a power of 2) where the buddy cache is + used + +What: /sys/fs/ext4/<disk>/mb_stream_req +Date: March 2008 +Contact: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> +Description: + Files which have fewer blocks than this tunable + parameter will have their blocks allocated out of a + block group specific preallocation pool, so that small + files are packed closely together. Each large file + will have its blocks allocated out of its own unique + preallocation pool. + +What: /sys/fs/ext4/<disk>/inode_readahead +Date: March 2008 +Contact: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> +Description: + Tuning parameter which controls the maximum number of + inode table blocks that ext4's inode table readahead + algorithm will pre-read into the buffer cache + +What: /sys/fs/ext4/<disk>/delayed_allocation_blocks +Date: March 2008 +Contact: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> +Description: + This file is read-only and shows the number of blocks + that are dirty in the page cache, but which do not + have their location in the filesystem allocated yet. + +What: /sys/fs/ext4/<disk>/lifetime_write_kbytes +Date: March 2008 +Contact: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> +Description: + This file is read-only and shows the number of kilobytes + of data that have been written to this filesystem since it was + created. + +What: /sys/fs/ext4/<disk>/session_write_kbytes +Date: March 2008 +Contact: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> +Description: + This file is read-only and shows the number of + kilobytes of data that have been written to this + filesystem since it was mounted. |