MFS is a stackable file system that utilizes a lower and a cache layer. It provides users with programmable caching capabilities. MFS only supports read-only operations for regular files, directories and symbolic links. When MFS is stacked on top of the lower and cache layers (which are themselves mounted on other file systems, such as ext4 or xfs), the underlying file systems must be also kept read-only to prevent the data inconsistency. MFS supports three running mode: none, local and remote. These modes are explained in running mode section. In short, MFS requires the `mtree` and `cachedir` mount options. The `mtree` option specifies the metadata source for MFS, while the `cachedir` option specifies the data source. In local or remote mode, `cachedir` points to a local cache (in memory or on disk) for backend file systems. Hongbo Li (19): mfs: Initialize mfs module mfs: implement the mount procedure mfs: Add basic metadata operation for MFS mfs: Add basic data operation for MFS mfs: Add basic cache framework: check method and control structure mfs: Add basic events framework mfs: Add communication devie and event acquisition operations mfs: Add user command for handling events mfs: Add tracepoint for MFS mfs: Add MFS documentation MAINTAINERS: Add maintainer for mfs mfs: enable MFS mfs: Fix the UAF problems on syncer object mfs: Make mfs_filemap_map_pages static mfs: Make mfs_dops, mfs_sops and _acquire_set_path static mfs: Make mfs_lookup, mfs_dir_iops, mfs_symlink_iops and mfs_symlink_iops static mfs: Make sure all delayed rcu inodes are safe to be destroyed mfs: Pending when umount with the device opening mfs: allow resched when too many events need to be destroyed Huang Xiaojia (1): mfs: tool: Add mfs user space tool demo HuangXiaojia (1): mfs: Fix null pointer access in mfs_open or mfs_lookup Documentation/filesystems/index.rst | 1 + Documentation/filesystems/mfs.rst | 223 +++++++++++ MAINTAINERS | 10 + arch/arm64/configs/openeuler_defconfig | 1 + arch/x86/configs/openeuler_defconfig | 1 + fs/Kconfig | 1 + fs/Makefile | 1 + fs/mfs/Kconfig | 12 + fs/mfs/Makefile | 4 + fs/mfs/cache.c | 507 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ fs/mfs/data.c | 523 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ fs/mfs/dev.c | 242 ++++++++++++ fs/mfs/inode.c | 303 ++++++++++++++ fs/mfs/internal.h | 232 +++++++++++ fs/mfs/super.c | 499 +++++++++++++++++++++++ include/trace/events/mfs.h | 105 +++++ include/uapi/linux/magic.h | 1 + include/uapi/linux/mfs.h | 62 +++ tools/mfs/.gitignore | 2 + tools/mfs/Makefile | 13 + tools/mfs/mfsd.c | 186 +++++++++ 21 files changed, 2929 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/filesystems/mfs.rst create mode 100644 fs/mfs/Kconfig create mode 100644 fs/mfs/Makefile create mode 100644 fs/mfs/cache.c create mode 100644 fs/mfs/data.c create mode 100644 fs/mfs/dev.c create mode 100644 fs/mfs/inode.c create mode 100644 fs/mfs/internal.h create mode 100644 fs/mfs/super.c create mode 100644 include/trace/events/mfs.h create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/mfs.h create mode 100644 tools/mfs/.gitignore create mode 100644 tools/mfs/Makefile create mode 100644 tools/mfs/mfsd.c -- 2.25.1