linux/Documentation/filesystems
Dan Williams 2424b5dd06 sysfs: refill attribute buffer when reading from offset 0
Requiring userspace to close and re-open sysfs attributes has been the
policy since before 2.6.12.  It allows userspace to get a consistent
snapshot of kernel state and consume it with incremental reads and seeks.

Now, if the file position is zero the kernel assumes userspace wants to see
the new value.  The application for this change is to allow a userspace
RAID metadata handler to check the state of an array without causing any
memory allocations.  Thus not causing writeback to a raid array that might
be blocked waiting for userspace to take action.

Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-04-19 19:10:29 -07:00
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configfs correct missing a double quote in configfs.txt 2008-02-03 16:10:08 +02:00
9p.txt
00-INDEX Documentation: move rpc-cache.txt to filesystems/ 2008-04-11 13:20:52 -06:00
adfs.txt
affs.txt
afs.txt
automount-support.txt
befs.txt
bfs.txt
cifs.txt
coda.txt
cramfs.txt
dentry-locking.txt
directory-locking
dlmfs.txt
dnotify.txt Documentation: move dnotify.txt to filesystems/ 2008-02-07 08:42:17 -08:00
ecryptfs.txt
Exporting
ext2.txt
ext3.txt
ext4.txt
files.txt
fuse.txt
gfs2.txt
hfs.txt
hfsplus.txt
hpfs.txt
inotify.txt
isofs.txt isofs: implement dmode option 2008-02-08 09:22:38 -08:00
jfs.txt
Locking iget: remove iget() and the read_inode() super op as being obsolete 2008-02-07 08:42:29 -08:00
locks.txt
mandatory-locking.txt
ncpfs.txt
nfsroot.txt Documentation: move nfsroot.txt to filesystems/ 2008-04-11 13:18:01 -06:00
ntfs.txt
ocfs2.txt
porting iget: remove iget() and the read_inode() super op as being obsolete 2008-02-07 08:42:29 -08:00
proc.txt laptops: move laptop-mode.txt to Documentation/laptops/ 2008-03-12 02:37:21 -04:00
quota.txt
ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt Documentation: fix type error 2008-02-03 14:50:11 +02:00
relay.txt doc: use correct debugfs mountpoint 2008-02-03 16:30:51 +02:00
romfs.txt
rpc-cache.txt Documentation: move rpc-cache.txt to filesystems/ 2008-04-11 13:20:52 -06:00
seq_file.txt Fix typos in Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt 2008-04-15 19:35:40 -07:00
sharedsubtree.txt Documentation: move sharedsubtrees.txt to filesystems/ 2008-02-07 08:42:17 -08:00
smbfs.txt
spufs.txt
sysfs-pci.txt
sysfs.txt sysfs: refill attribute buffer when reading from offset 0 2008-04-19 19:10:29 -07:00
sysv-fs.txt
tmpfs.txt
udf.txt
ufs.txt
vfat.txt
vfs.txt mount options: add documentation 2008-02-08 09:22:39 -08:00
xfs.txt [XFS] Update XFS documentation for noikeep/ikeep. 2008-04-18 12:18:42 +10:00
xip.txt