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[41/41] Documentation: update adfs filesystem documentation

Message ID E1ieGx5-0004ea-UW@rmk-PC.armlinux.org.uk (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series fs/adfs updates for 5.6 | expand

Commit Message

Russell King (Oracle) Dec. 9, 2019, 11:11 a.m. UTC 
Add an introduction to adfs to its documentation detailing which formats
are supported by the module.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
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 Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt
index 5949766353f7..0baa8e8c1fc1 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,27 @@ 
+Filesystems supported by ADFS
+-----------------------------
+
+The ADFS module supports the following Filecore formats which have:
+
+- new maps
+- new directories or big directories
+
+In terms of the named formats, this means we support:
+
+- E and E+, with or without boot block
+- F and F+
+
+We fully support reading files from these filesystems, and writing to
+existing files within their existing allocation.  Essentially, we do
+not support changing any of the filesystem metadata.
+
+This is intended to support loopback mounted Linux native filesystems
+on a RISC OS Filecore filesystem, but will allow the data within files
+to be changed.
+
+If write support (ADFS_FS_RW) is configured, we allow rudimentary
+directory updates, specifically updating the access mode and timestamp.
+
 Mount options for ADFS
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