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[XFS] Update XFS Documentation for ikeep and ihashsize
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Update xfs docs for:
* In memory inode hashes has been removed.
* noikeep is now the default.

SGI-PV: 969561
SGI-Modid: 2.6.x-xfs-melb:linux:29481b

Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
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David Chinner authored and Lachlan McIlroy committed Apr 18, 2008
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Expand Up @@ -52,16 +52,14 @@ When mounting an XFS filesystem, the following options are accepted.
and also gets the setgid bit set if it is a directory itself.

ihashsize=value
Sets the number of hash buckets available for hashing the
in-memory inodes of the specified mount point. If a value
of zero is used, the value selected by the default algorithm
will be displayed in /proc/mounts.
In memory inode hashes have been removed, so this option has
no function as of August 2007. Option is deprecated.

ikeep/noikeep
When inode clusters are emptied of inodes, keep them around
on the disk (ikeep) - this is the traditional XFS behaviour
and is still the default for now. Using the noikeep option,
inode clusters are returned to the free space pool.
When ikeep is specified, XFS does not delete empty inode clusters
and keeps them around on disk. ikeep is the traditional XFS
behaviour. When noikeep is specified, empty inode clusters
are returned to the free space pool. The default is noikeep.

inode64
Indicates that XFS is allowed to create inodes at any location
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