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authorJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>2006-02-27 11:33:51 -0500
committerJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>2006-02-27 11:33:51 -0500
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt4
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt
index 614de3124901..251168587899 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt
@@ -457,6 +457,12 @@ ChangeLog
Note, a technical ChangeLog aimed at kernel hackers is in fs/ntfs/ChangeLog.
+2.1.26:
+ - Implement support for sector sizes above 512 bytes (up to the maximum
+ supported by NTFS which is 4096 bytes).
+ - Enhance support for NTFS volumes which were supported by Windows but
+ not by Linux due to invalid attribute list attribute flags.
+ - A few minor updates and bug fixes.
2.1.25:
- Write support is now extended with write(2) being able to both
overwrite existing file data and to extend files. Also, if a write
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt
index 8a155418c705..1773106976a2 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt
@@ -92,6 +92,15 @@ NodeList format is a comma-separated list of decimal numbers and ranges,
a range being two hyphen-separated decimal numbers, the smallest and
largest node numbers in the range. For example, mpol=bind:0-3,5,7,9-15
+Note that trying to mount a tmpfs with an mpol option will fail if the
+running kernel does not support NUMA; and will fail if its nodelist
+specifies a node >= MAX_NUMNODES. If your system relies on that tmpfs
+being mounted, but from time to time runs a kernel built without NUMA
+capability (perhaps a safe recovery kernel), or configured to support
+fewer nodes, then it is advisable to omit the mpol option from automatic
+mount options. It can be added later, when the tmpfs is already mounted
+on MountPoint, by 'mount -o remount,mpol=Policy:NodeList MountPoint'.
+
To specify the initial root directory you can use the following mount
options:
diff --git a/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt b/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt
index 153740f460a6..1921353259ae 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt
@@ -52,6 +52,10 @@ APICs
apicmaintimer. Useful when your PIT timer is totally
broken.
+ disable_8254_timer / enable_8254_timer
+ Enable interrupt 0 timer routing over the 8254 in addition to over
+ the IO-APIC. The kernel tries to set a sensible default.
+
Early Console
syntax: earlyprintk=vga