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    Merge tag 'for-3.8-merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs · a13eea6b
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Pull new F2FS filesystem from Jaegeuk Kim:
     "Introduce a new file system, Flash-Friendly File System (F2FS), to
      Linux 3.8.
    
      Highlights:
       - Add initial f2fs source codes
       - Fix an endian conversion bug
       - Fix build failures on random configs
       - Fix the power-off-recovery routine
       - Minor cleanup, coding style, and typos patches"
    
    From the Kconfig help text:
    
      F2FS is based on Log-structured File System (LFS), which supports
      versatile "flash-friendly" features. The design has been focused on
      addressing the fundamental issues in LFS, which are snowball effect
      of wandering tree and high cleaning overhead.
    
      Since flash-based storages show different characteristics according to
      the internal geometry or flash memory management schemes aka FTL, F2FS
      and tools support various parameters not only for configuring on-disk
      layout, but also for selecting allocation and cleaning algorithms.
    
    and there's an article by Neil Brown about it on lwn.net:
    
      http://lwn.net/Articles/518988/
    
    * tag 'for-3.8-merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs: (36 commits)
      f2fs: fix tracking parent inode number
      f2fs: cleanup the f2fs_bio_alloc routine
      f2fs: introduce accessor to retrieve number of dentry slots
      f2fs: remove redundant call to f2fs_put_page in delete entry
      f2fs: make use of GFP_F2FS_ZERO for setting gfp_mask
      f2fs: rewrite f2fs_bio_alloc to make it simpler
      f2fs: fix a typo in f2fs documentation
      f2fs: remove unused variable
      f2fs: move error condition for mkdir at proper place
      f2fs: remove unneeded initialization
      f2fs: check read only condition before beginning write out
      f2fs: remove unneeded memset from init_once
      f2fs: show error in case of invalid mount arguments
      f2fs: fix the compiler warning for uninitialized use of variable
      f2fs: resolve build failures
      f2fs: adjust kernel coding style
      f2fs: fix endian conversion bugs reported by sparse
      f2fs: remove unneeded version.h header file from f2fs.h
      f2fs: update the f2fs document
      f2fs: update Kconfig and Makefile
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