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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.rst index 35ed01a5fbc9..992bf91eeec8 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.rst @@ -110,6 +110,12 @@ background_gc=%s Turn on/off cleaning operations, namely garbage on synchronous garbage collection running in background. Default value for this option is on. So garbage collection is on by default. +gc_merge When background_gc is on, this option can be enabled to + let background GC thread to handle foreground GC requests, + it can eliminate the sluggish issue caused by slow foreground + GC operation when GC is triggered from a process with limited + I/O and CPU resources. +nogc_merge Disable GC merge feature. disable_roll_forward Disable the roll-forward recovery routine norecovery Disable the roll-forward recovery routine, mounted read- only (i.e., -o ro,disable_roll_forward) @@ -813,6 +819,14 @@ Compression implementation * chattr +c file * chattr +c dir; touch dir/file * mount w/ -o compress_extension=ext; touch file.ext + * mount w/ -o compress_extension=*; touch any_file + +- At this point, compression feature doesn't expose compressed space to user + directly in order to guarantee potential data updates later to the space. + Instead, the main goal is to reduce data writes to flash disk as much as + possible, resulting in extending disk life time as well as relaxing IO + congestion. Alternatively, we've added ioctl interface to reclaim compressed + space and show it to user after putting the immutable bit. Compress metadata layout:: |