NAME
fallocate - preallocate or deallocate space to a file
SYNOPSIS
fallocate [-c|-p|-z] [-o offset] -l length [-n] filename
fallocate -d [-o offset] [-l length] filename
DESCRIPTION
fallocate is used to manipulate the allocated disk space for a file,
either to deallocate or preallocate it. For filesystems which support
the fallocate system call, preallocation is done quickly by allocating
blocks and marking them as uninitialized, requiring no IO to the data
blocks. This is much faster than creating a file by filling it with
zeroes.
function old new delta
fallocate_main - 179 +179
applet_names 2597 2606 +9
applet_main 1504 1508 +4
applet_suid 94 95 +1
applet_install_loc 188 189 +1
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
NAME
fsfreeze - suspend access to a filesystem (Ext3/4, ReiserFS, JFS, XFS)
SYNOPSIS
fsfreeze --freeze|--unfreeze mountpoint
DESCRIPTION
fsfreeze suspends or resumes access to a filesystem.
fsfreeze halts any new access to the filesystem and creates a stable
image on disk.
AVAILABILITY
The fsfreeze command is part of the util-linux 2.28
function old new delta
fsfreeze_main - 81 +81
applet_names 2597 2606 +9
applet_main 1504 1508 +4
applet_suid 94 95 +1
applet_install_loc 188 189 +1
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Busybox is very often used in initramfs at the end of which usually
there is a switch_root to the actual rootfs. There are many cases where
the console kernel argument is either just a placeholder (for example
RaspberryPi uses serial0 and serial1) or configured as null to avoid any
console messages - usually you would see such of a setup in production
environments.
Currently busybox bails out if can't open the console argument. If this
happenes in initramfs and if the console=null for example, you get in a
blind kernel panic. Avoid this by only warning instead of dying.
function old new delta
switch_root_main 371 368 -3
Signed-off-by: Andrei Gherzan <andrei@gherzan.com>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
This reverts commit 86a03bee1d.
Since now our "mount -oloop" creates AUTOCLEARed loopdevs, we no longer
need our umount to destroy loopdevs to match the usual util-linux behaviour.
Now this revert fixes another, opposite bug: "explicit" mount /dev/loopN
and then umount must not drop loopdevs!
User complaint is as follows:
It seems LOOP_CLR_FD called on a loop-*partition* removes the mapping of
the whole *device* - which results in the following:
root@LEDE:/# loop=$(losetup -f)
root@LEDE:/# echo ${loop}
/dev/loop2
root@LEDE:/# losetup ${loop} /IMAGE
root@LEDE:/# ls -l ${loop}*
brw------- 1 root root 7, 2 Mar 6 20:09 /dev/loop2
root@LEDE:/# partprobe ${loop}
root@LEDE:/# ls -l ${loop}*
brw------- 1 root root 7, 2 Mar 6 20:09 /dev/loop2
brw------- 1 root root 259, 8 Mar 6 21:59 /dev/loop2p1
brw------- 1 root root 259, 9 Mar 6 21:59 /dev/loop2p2
brw------- 1 root root 259, 10 Mar 6 21:59 /dev/loop2p3
brw------- 1 root root 259, 11 Mar 6 21:59 /dev/loop2p4
brw------- 1 root root 259, 12 Mar 6 21:59 /dev/loop2p5
brw------- 1 root root 259, 13 Mar 6 21:59 /dev/loop2p6
brw------- 1 root root 259, 14 Mar 6 21:59 /dev/loop2p7
brw------- 1 root root 259, 15 Mar 6 21:59 /dev/loop2p8
root@LEDE:/# mount ${loop}p8 /MOUNT # mount loop partition
root@LEDE:/# losetup -a | grep $loop # loop dev mapping still there
/dev/loop2: 0 /mnt/IMAGE
root@LEDE:/# strace umount /MOUNT 2> /log # unmount loop partition
root@LEDE:/# losetup -a | grep ${loop} # loop device mapping is gone
root@LEDE:/# grep -i loop /log
open("/dev/loop2p7", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
ioctl(3, LOOP_CLR_FD) = 0
root@LEDE:/#
The strace was done to figure out, if maybe umount wrongly ioctl()'s the
parent device instead of the partition - it doesn't.
I already wasn't a fan of umount implicitly removing the mapping in the
first place (as I usually setup and release loop devices with `losetup`
and scripts needed to call umount differently in order to work and
outside busybox).
However taking above (kernel-)behaviour into account - umount calling
ioctl(LOOP_CLR_FD) unconditionally potentially causes some nasty side
effects
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
The "autolooped" mount (mount [-oloop] IMAGE /DIR/DIR)
always creates AUTOCLEARed loopdevs, so that umounting
drops them (and this does not require any code in the
umount userspace).
This happens since circa linux-2.6.25:
commit 96c5865559cee0f9cbc5173f3c949f6ce3525581
Date: Wed Feb 6 01:36:27 2008 -0800
Subject: Allow auto-destruction of loop devices
IOW: in this case, umount does not have to use -d
to drop the loopdev.
The explicit loop mount (mount /dev/loopN /DIR/DIR)
does not do this. In this case, umount without -d
should not drop loopdev.
Unfortunately, bbox umount currently always implies -d,
this probably needs fixing.
function old new delta
set_loop 537 597 +60
singlemount 1101 1138 +37
losetup_main 419 432 +13
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Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
While at it, tweaked hexdump --help
function old new delta
xxd_main 364 414 +50
packed_usage 31097 31114 +17
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Redundant help texts (one which only repeats the description)
are deleted.
Descriptions and help texts are trimmed.
Some config options are moved, even across menus.
No config option _names_ are changed.
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Alpine Linux stumbled over "more -s":
http://bugs.alpinelinux.org/issues/5190
function old new delta
more_main 857 872 +15
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
This makes it possible to use scoped IPv6 addresses:
mount -t cifs -o ip=<ADDR>%<iface_id> //<ADDR>/test test
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Gives "mount -t cifs //fe80::6a05:caff:fe3e:dbf5%eth0/test test"
a chance to work: mount must pass "ip=numeric_IPv6%numeric_iface_id"
in the omunt option string. Currently, it does not.
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Currently some new devices that have a bus but no class will
be missed by mdev coldplug device creation after boot. This
happens because mdev recursively searches /sys/class which will
by definition only find class devices.
Some important devices such as iio and gpiochip does not have
a class. But users will need them.
This switches from using /sys/class as the place to look for
devices to create to using /sys/dev where all char and block
devices are listed.
The subsystem lookup code that provide the G.subsystem
environment variable is changed from using the directory
name of the class device to instead dereference the
"subsystem" symlink for the device, and look at the last
element of the path of the symlink for the subsystem, which
will work with class devices and bus devices alike. (The new
bus-only devices only symlink to the /sys/bus/* hierarchy.)
We delete the legacy kernel v2.6.2x /sys/block device path
code as part of this change. It's too old to be kept alive.
Tested on kernel v4.6-rc2 with a bunch of devices, including
some IIO and gpiochip devices.
With a print inserted before make_device() the log looks
like so:
Create device from "/sys/dev/char/1:1", subsystem "mem"
Create device from "/sys/dev/char/1:2", subsystem "mem"
Create device from "/sys/dev/char/1:3", subsystem "mem"
Create device from "/sys/dev/char/1:5", subsystem "mem"
(...)
Create device from "/sys/dev/block/179:56", subsystem "block"
Create device from "/sys/dev/block/179:64", subsystem "block"
function old new delta
mdev_main 1388 1346 -42
dirAction 134 14 -120
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Cc: Isaac Dunham <ibid.ag@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
"Total allocated sectors 2021315 greater than the maximum 2020356"
maximum what?
Turns out, that's the CHS size of the disk.
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Before:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 998 255471+ 6 FAT16
What are "blocks"? What is that "+"?
How big is this partition?
Is start/end shown came from LBA fields or CHS fields?
Why are we torturing the user??
After:
Device Boot StartCHS EndCHS StartLBA EndLBA Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1 * 0,1,1 996,15,32 32 510974 510943 249M 6 FAT16
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
The result of looking at "grep -F -B2 '*fill*' busybox_unstripped.map"
text data bss dec hex filename
829901 4086 1904 835891 cc133 busybox_before
829665 4086 1904 835655 cc047 busybox
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
