[PATCH v2] docs: filesystems: f2fs: fix description about compress ioctl

From: Chao Liu
Date: Sun Jun 12 2022 - 22:08:54 EST


From: Chao Liu <liuchao@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Since commit c61404153eb6 ("f2fs: introduce FI_COMPRESS_RELEASED
instead of using IMMUTABLE bit"), we no longer use the IMMUTABLE
bit to prevent writing data for compression. Let's correct the
corresponding documentation.

BTW, this patch fixes some alignment issues in the compress
metadata layout.

Signed-off-by: Chao Liu <liuchao@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2:
- s/file size/filesize/
Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.rst | 13 +++++++------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.rst
index ad8dc8c040a2..531b0f8a3946 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.rst
@@ -818,10 +818,11 @@ Compression implementation
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(F2FS_IOC_RELEASE_COMPRESS_BLOCKS)
- interface to reclaim compressed space and show it to user after putting the
- immutable bit. Immutable bit, after release, it doesn't allow writing/mmaping
- on the file, until reserving compressed space via
- ioctl(F2FS_IOC_RESERVE_COMPRESS_BLOCKS) or truncating filesize to zero.
+ interface to reclaim compressed space and show it to user after setting a
+ special flag to the inode. Once the compressed space is released, the flag
+ will block writing data to the file until either the compressed space is
+ reserved via ioctl(F2FS_IOC_RESERVE_COMPRESS_BLOCKS) or the filesize is
+ truncated to zero.

Compress metadata layout::

@@ -830,12 +831,12 @@ Compress metadata layout::
| cluster 1 | cluster 2 | ......... | cluster N |
+-----------------------------------------------+
. . . .
- . . . .
+ . . . .
. Compressed Cluster . . Normal Cluster .
+----------+---------+---------+---------+ +---------+---------+---------+---------+
|compr flag| block 1 | block 2 | block 3 | | block 1 | block 2 | block 3 | block 4 |
+----------+---------+---------+---------+ +---------+---------+---------+---------+
- . .
+ . .
. .
. .
+-------------+-------------+----------+----------------------------+
--
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