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

Documentation/00-INDEX

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@@ -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

Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX

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	- 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

Documentation/locks.txt

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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'.