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Mark Fashehccd979b2005-12-15 14:31:24 -08001OCFS2 filesystem
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3OCFS2 is a general purpose extent based shared disk cluster file
4system with many similarities to ext3. It supports 64 bit inode
5numbers, and has automatically extending metadata groups which may
6also make it attractive for non-clustered use.
7
8You'll want to install the ocfs2-tools package in order to at least
9get "mount.ocfs2" and "ocfs2_hb_ctl".
10
11Project web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2
12Tools web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2-tools
13OCFS2 mailing lists: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/mailman/
14
15All code copyright 2005 Oracle except when otherwise noted.
16
17CREDITS:
18Lots of code taken from ext3 and other projects.
19
20Authors in alphabetical order:
21Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
22Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
23Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
24Kurt Hackel <kurt.hackel@oracle.com>
25Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
26Manish Singh <manish.singh@oracle.com>
27
28Caveats
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30Features which OCFS2 does not support yet:
31 - sparse files
32 - extended attributes
33 - shared writeable mmap
34 - loopback is supported, but data written will not
35 be cluster coherent.
36 - quotas
37 - cluster aware flock
J. Bruce Fields0d419a62006-01-11 16:55:00 -050038 - cluster aware lockf
Mark Fashehccd979b2005-12-15 14:31:24 -080039 - Directory change notification (F_NOTIFY)
40 - Distributed Caching (F_SETLEASE/F_GETLEASE/break_lease)
41 - POSIX ACLs
42 - readpages / writepages (not user visible)
43
44Mount options
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46
47OCFS2 supports the following mount options:
48(*) == default
49
50barrier=1 This enables/disables barriers. barrier=0 disables it,
51 barrier=1 enables it.
52errors=remount-ro(*) Remount the filesystem read-only on an error.
53errors=panic Panic and halt the machine if an error occurs.
54intr (*) Allow signals to interrupt cluster operations.
55nointr Do not allow signals to interrupt cluster
56 operations.