Commit 4f3b19ca authored by J. Bruce Fields's avatar J. Bruce Fields

Documentation: move mandatory locking documentation to filesystems/

Shouldn't this mandatory-locking documentation be in the
Documentation/filesystems directory?

Give it a more descriptive name while we're at it, and update 00-INDEX
with a more inclusive description of Documentation/filesystems (which
has already talked about more than just individual filesystems).
Signed-off-by: default avatarJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Acked-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
parent 85c59580
......@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ fb/
feature-removal-schedule.txt
- list of files and features that are going to be removed.
filesystems/
- directory with info on the various filesystems that Linux supports.
- info on the vfs and the various filesystems that Linux supports.
firmware_class/
- request_firmware() hotplug interface info.
floppy.txt
......@@ -240,8 +240,6 @@ m68k/
- directory with info about Linux on Motorola 68k architecture.
magic-number.txt
- list of magic numbers used to mark/protect kernel data structures.
mandatory.txt
- info on the Linux implementation of Sys V mandatory file locking.
mca.txt
- info on supporting Micro Channel Architecture (e.g. PS/2) systems.
md.txt
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......@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ isofs.txt
- info and mount options for the ISO 9660 (CDROM) filesystem.
jfs.txt
- info and mount options for the JFS filesystem.
mandatory-locking.txt
- info on the Linux implementation of Sys V mandatory file locking.
ncpfs.txt
- info on Novell Netware(tm) filesystem using NCP protocol.
ntfs.txt
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......@@ -53,11 +53,11 @@ fcntl(), with all the problems that implies.
1.3 Mandatory Locking As A Mount Option
---------------------------------------
Mandatory locking, as described in 'Documentation/mandatory.txt' was prior
to this release a general configuration option that was valid for all
mounted filesystems. This had a number of inherent dangers, not the least
of which was the ability to freeze an NFS server by asking it to read a
file for which a mandatory lock existed.
Mandatory locking, as described in 'Documentation/filesystems/mandatory.txt'
was prior to this release a general configuration option that was valid for
all mounted filesystems. This had a number of inherent dangers, not the
least of which was the ability to freeze an NFS server by asking it to read
a file for which a mandatory lock existed.
From this release of the kernel, mandatory locking can be turned on and off
on a per-filesystem basis, using the mount options 'mand' and 'nomand'.
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