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authorNeil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>2004-06-04 20:55:18 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>2004-06-04 20:55:18 -0700
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[PATCH] kNFSd: documentation typo fixes
Fix minor typos. From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/Exporting24
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Exporting b/Documentation/filesystems/Exporting
index 548dcf48e2497d..31047e0fe14bce 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Exporting
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Exporting
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ tree. This means that if any filesystem object is in the dcache, then
all of the ancestors of that filesystem object are also in the dcache.
As normal access is by filename this prefix is created naturally and
maintained easily (by each object maintaining a reference count on
-it's parent).
+its parent).
However when objects are included into the dcache by interpreting a
filehandle fragment, there is no automatic creation of a path prefix
@@ -44,15 +44,15 @@ the dcache that are not needed for normal filesystem access.
2/ The dcache must be prepared for a newly found (via ->lookup) directory
to already have a (non-connected) dentry, and must be able to move
that dentry into place (based on the parent and name in the
- ->lookup). This is particuarly needed for directories as
+ ->lookup). This is particularly needed for directories as
it is a dcache invariant that directories only have one dentry.
To implement these features, the dcache has:
-a/ A dentry flag DCACHE_DISCONNECTED which is set on
- and dentry that might not be part of the proper prefix.
+a/ A dentry flag DCACHE_DISCONNECTED which is set on
+ any dentry that might not be part of the proper prefix.
This is set when anonymous dentries are created, and cleared when a
- dentry is noticed to be a child on a dentry which is in the proper
+ dentry is noticed to be a child of a dentry which is in the proper
prefix.
b/ A per-superblock list "s_anon" of dentries which are the roots of
@@ -123,9 +123,9 @@ filesystem:
get_name. When given a parent dentry and a child dentry, this
should find a name in the directory identified by the parent
dentry, which leads to the object identified by the child dentry.
- If no get_name function is supplied, a default implementation
- which used vfs_readdir to find potential names, and matches inode
- numbers to find the correct match.
+ If no get_name function is supplied, a default implementation is
+ provided which uses vfs_readdir to find potential names, and
+ matches inode numbers to find the correct match.
get_parent. When given a dentry for a directory, this should return
a dentry for the parent. Quite possibly the parent dentry will
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ filesystem:
->lookup("..") is *not* used as a default as it can leave ".."
entries in the dcache which are too messy to work with.
- get_dentry. When given a opaque datum, this should find the
+ get_dentry. When given an opaque datum, this should find the
implied object and create a dentry for it (possibly with
d_alloc_anon).
The opaque datum is whatever is passed down by the decode_fh
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ filesystem:
fragment.
decode_fh passes two datums through find_exported_dentry. One that
should be used to identify the target object, and one that can be
- used to identify the objects parent, should that be necessary.
+ used to identify the object's parent, should that be necessary.
The default get_dentry function assumes that the datum contains an
inode number and a generation number, and it attempts to get the
inode using "iget" and check it's validity by matching the
@@ -164,8 +164,8 @@ filehandle assuming the format used by the default encode_fh and
passed them to find_exported_dentry.
-A filehandle fragment consists of an array of 1 or more 4byte words.
-Together with a one byte "type".
+A filehandle fragment consists of an array of 1 or more 4byte words,
+together with a one byte "type".
The decode_fh routine should not depend on the stated size that is
passed to it. This size may be larger than the original filehandle
generated by encode_fh, in which case it will have been padded with