Add help and manpage information for xfs_io shutdown -f
Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
V2:
Add more detailed information about what shutdown command does
io/shutdown.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
man/man8/xfs_io.8 | 16 +++++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/io/shutdown.c b/io/shutdown.c
index 022a0e9a..8ac64d63 100644
--- a/io/shutdown.c
+++ b/io/shutdown.c
@@ -47,6 +47,21 @@ shutdown_f(
return 0;
}
+static void
+shutdown_help(void)
+{
+ printf(_(
+"\n"
+" Shuts down the filesystem and prevents any further IO from occurring.\n"
+"\n"
+" With no arguments, shutdown will not attempt to flush completed transactions\n"
+" to disk before marking the log as being shut down. Simulating an IO error\n"
+" behavior.\n"
+"\n"
+" -f -- Flush completed transactions to disk before shut down.\n"
+"\n"));
+}
+
void
shutdown_init(void)
{
@@ -56,6 +71,7 @@ shutdown_init(void)
shutdown_cmd.argmax = 1;
shutdown_cmd.flags = CMD_NOMAP_OK | CMD_FLAG_ONESHOT | CMD_FLAG_FOREIGN_OK;
shutdown_cmd.args = _("[-f]");
+ shutdown_cmd.help = shutdown_help;
shutdown_cmd.oneline =
_("shuts down the filesystem where the current file resides");
diff --git a/man/man8/xfs_io.8 b/man/man8/xfs_io.8
index c3ab532d..d4c28a0a 100644
--- a/man/man8/xfs_io.8
+++ b/man/man8/xfs_io.8
@@ -1007,8 +1007,22 @@ Note \-\- this can be useful for exercising out of space behavior.
Only available in expert mode and requires privileges.
.TP
.BR shutdown " [ " \-f " ]"
-Force the filesystem to shutdown (with or without flushing the log).
+Force a shutdown of the filesystem, but keep consistency. It does not unmount
+the filesystem, but prevents any other IO to happen on it.
Only available in expert mode and requires privileges.
+.PP
+.RS
+By default, XFS will not attempt to flush completed transactions to disk before
+marking the log as being shut down.
+.RE
+.RS 1.0i
+.PD 0
+.TP 0.4i
+.B \-f
+Force XFS to flush all completed transactions to disk before marking the log as
+shut down.
+.PD
+.RE
.TP
.BR stat " [ " \-v "|" \-r " ]"
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