Commit 720c2fc1 authored by Mauro Carvalho Chehab's avatar Mauro Carvalho Chehab Committed by Jonathan Corbet

docs: filesystems: convert gfs2.txt to ReST

- Add a SPDX header;
- Adjust document title;
- Some whitespace fixes and new line breaks;
- Mark literal blocks as such;
- Add table markups;
- Add it to filesystems/index.rst.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarBob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/6d7a296de025bcfed7a229da7f8cc1678944f304.1581955849.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent 89272ca1
.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
==================
Global File System
------------------
==================
https://fedorahosted.org/cluster/wiki/HomePage
......@@ -14,16 +17,18 @@ on one machine show up immediately on all other machines in the cluster.
GFS uses interchangeable inter-node locking mechanisms, the currently
supported mechanisms are:
lock_nolock -- allows gfs to be used as a local file system
lock_nolock
- allows gfs to be used as a local file system
lock_dlm -- uses a distributed lock manager (dlm) for inter-node locking
The dlm is found at linux/fs/dlm/
lock_dlm
- uses a distributed lock manager (dlm) for inter-node locking.
The dlm is found at linux/fs/dlm/
Lock_dlm depends on user space cluster management systems found
at the URL above.
To use gfs as a local file system, no external clustering systems are
needed, simply:
needed, simply::
$ mkfs -t gfs2 -p lock_nolock -j 1 /dev/block_device
$ mount -t gfs2 /dev/block_device /dir
......@@ -37,9 +42,12 @@ 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
tunegfs2 to manipulate, examine and tune a filesystem
gfs2_convert to convert a gfs filesystem to gfs2 in-place
gfs2_convert to convert a gfs filesystem to gfs2 in-place
mkfs.gfs2 to make a filesystem
============ =============================================
......@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ Documentation for filesystem implementations.
ext2
ext3
f2fs
gfs2
fuse
overlayfs
virtiofs
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