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What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/gc_max_sleep_time
Date:		July 2013
Contact:	"Namjae Jeon" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Controls the maximum sleep time for gc_thread. Time
		is in milliseconds.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/gc_min_sleep_time
Date:		July 2013
Contact:	"Namjae Jeon" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Controls the minimum sleep time for gc_thread. Time
		is in milliseconds.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/gc_no_gc_sleep_time
Date:		July 2013
Contact:	"Namjae Jeon" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Controls the default sleep time for gc_thread. Time
		is in milliseconds.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/gc_idle
Date:		July 2013
Contact:	"Namjae Jeon" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Controls the victim selection policy for garbage collection.
		Setting gc_idle = 0(default) will disable this option. Setting:

		===========  ===============================================
		gc_idle = 1  will select the Cost Benefit approach & setting
		gc_idle = 2  will select the greedy approach & setting
		gc_idle = 3  will select the age-threshold based approach.
		===========  ===============================================

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/reclaim_segments
Date:		October 2013
Contact:	"Jaegeuk Kim" <[e-mail]>
Description:	This parameter controls the number of prefree segments to be
		reclaimed. If the number of prefree segments is larger than
		the number of segments in the proportion to the percentage
		over total volume size, f2fs tries to conduct checkpoint to
		reclaim the prefree segments to free segments.
		By default, 5% over total # of segments.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/main_blkaddr
Date:		November 2019
Contact:	"Ramon Pantin" <[e-mail]>
Description:
		 Shows first block address of MAIN area.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/ipu_policy
Date:		November 2013
Contact:	"Jaegeuk Kim" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Controls the in-place-update policy.
		updates in f2fs. User can set:

		====  =================
		0x01  F2FS_IPU_FORCE
		0x02  F2FS_IPU_SSR
		0x04  F2FS_IPU_UTIL
		0x08  F2FS_IPU_SSR_UTIL
		0x10  F2FS_IPU_FSYNC
		0x20  F2FS_IPU_ASYNC,
		0x40  F2FS_IPU_NOCACHE
		====  =================

		Refer segment.h for details.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/min_ipu_util
Date:		November 2013
Contact:	"Jaegeuk Kim" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Controls the FS utilization condition for the in-place-update
		policies. It is used by F2FS_IPU_UTIL and F2FS_IPU_SSR_UTIL policies.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/min_fsync_blocks
Date:		September 2014
Contact:	"Jaegeuk Kim" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Controls the dirty page count condition for the in-place-update
		policies.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/min_seq_blocks
Date:		August 2018
Contact:	"Jaegeuk Kim" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Controls the dirty page count condition for batched sequential
		writes in writepages.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/min_hot_blocks
Date:		March 2017
Contact:	"Jaegeuk Kim" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Controls the dirty page count condition for redefining hot data.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/min_ssr_sections
Date:		October 2017
Contact:	"Chao Yu" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Controls the free section threshold to trigger SSR allocation.
		If this is large, SSR mode will be enabled early.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/max_small_discards
Date:		November 2013
Contact:	"Jaegeuk Kim" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Controls the issue rate of discard commands that consist of small
		blocks less than 2MB. The candidates to be discarded are cached until
		checkpoint is triggered, and issued during the checkpoint.
		By default, it is disabled with 0.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/discard_granularity
Date:		July 2017
Contact:	"Chao Yu" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Controls discard granularity of inner discard thread. Inner thread
		will not issue discards with size that is smaller than granularity.
		The unit size is one block(4KB), now only support configuring
		in range of [1, 512]. Default value is 4(=16KB).

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/umount_discard_timeout
Date:		January 2019
Contact:	"Jaegeuk Kim" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Set timeout to issue discard commands during umount.
	        Default: 5 secs

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/max_victim_search
Date:		January 2014
Contact:	"Jaegeuk Kim" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Controls the number of trials to find a victim segment
		when conducting SSR and cleaning operations. The default value
		is 4096 which covers 8GB block address range.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/migration_granularity
Date:		October 2018
Contact:	"Chao Yu" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Controls migration granularity of garbage collection on large
		section, it can let GC move partial segment{s} of one section
		in one GC cycle, so that dispersing heavy overhead GC to
		multiple lightweight one.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/dir_level
Date:		March 2014
Contact:	"Jaegeuk Kim" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Controls the directory level for large directory. If a
		directory has a number of files, it can reduce the file lookup
		latency by increasing this dir_level value. Otherwise, it
		needs to decrease this value to reduce the space overhead.
		The default value is 0.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/ram_thresh
Date:		March 2014
Contact:	"Jaegeuk Kim" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Controls the memory footprint used by free nids and cached
		nat entries. By default, 1 is set, which indicates
		10 MB / 1 GB RAM.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/batched_trim_sections
Date:		February 2015
Contact:	"Jaegeuk Kim" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Controls the trimming rate in batch mode.
		<deprecated>

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/cp_interval
Date:		October 2015
Contact:	"Jaegeuk Kim" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Controls the checkpoint timing, set to 60 seconds by default.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/idle_interval
Date:		January 2016
Contact:	"Jaegeuk Kim" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Controls the idle timing of system, if there is no FS operation
		during given interval.
		Set to 5 seconds by default.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/discard_idle_interval
Date:		September 2018
Contact:	"Chao Yu" <[e-mail]>
Contact:	"Sahitya Tummala" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Controls the idle timing of discard thread given
		this time interval.
		Default is 5 secs.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/gc_idle_interval
Date:		September 2018
Contact:	"Chao Yu" <[e-mail]>
Contact:	"Sahitya Tummala" <[e-mail]>
Description:    Controls the idle timing for gc path. Set to 5 seconds by default.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/iostat_enable
Date:		August 2017
Contact:	"Chao Yu" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Controls to enable/disable IO stat.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/ra_nid_pages
Date:		October 2015
Contact:	"Chao Yu" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Controls the count of nid pages to be readaheaded.
		When building free nids, F2FS reads NAT blocks ahead for
		speed up. Default is 0.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/dirty_nats_ratio
Date:		January 2016
Contact:	"Chao Yu" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Controls dirty nat entries ratio threshold, if current
		ratio exceeds configured threshold, checkpoint will
		be triggered for flushing dirty nat entries.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/lifetime_write_kbytes
Date:		January 2016
Contact:	"Shuoran Liu" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Shows total written kbytes issued to disk.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/features
Date:		July 2017
Contact:	"Jaegeuk Kim" <[e-mail]>
Description:	<deprecated: should use /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/feature_list/
		Shows all enabled features in current device.
		Supported features:
		encryption, blkzoned, extra_attr, projquota, inode_checksum,
		flexible_inline_xattr, quota_ino, inode_crtime, lost_found,
		verity, sb_checksum, casefold, readonly, compression, pin_file.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/feature_list/
Date:		June 2021
Contact:	"Jaegeuk Kim" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Expand /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/features to meet sysfs rule.
		Supported on-disk features:
		encryption, block_zoned (aka blkzoned), extra_attr,
		project_quota (aka projquota), inode_checksum,
		flexible_inline_xattr, quota_ino, inode_crtime, lost_found,
		verity, sb_checksum, casefold, readonly, compression.
		Note that, pin_file is moved into /sys/fs/f2fs/features/.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/features/
Date:		July 2017
Contact:	"Jaegeuk Kim" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Shows all enabled kernel features.
		Supported features:
		encryption, block_zoned, extra_attr, project_quota,
		inode_checksum, flexible_inline_xattr, quota_ino,
		inode_crtime, lost_found, verity, sb_checksum,
		casefold, readonly, compression, test_dummy_encryption_v2,
		atomic_write, pin_file, encrypted_casefold.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/inject_rate
Date:		May 2016
Contact:	"Sheng Yong" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Controls the injection rate of arbitrary faults.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/inject_type
Date:		May 2016
Contact:	"Sheng Yong" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Controls the injection type of arbitrary faults.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/dirty_segments
Date:		October 2017
Contact:	"Jaegeuk Kim" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Shows the number of dirty segments.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/reserved_blocks
Date:		June 2017
Contact:	"Chao Yu" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Controls target reserved blocks in system, the threshold
		is soft, it could exceed current available user space.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/current_reserved_blocks
Date:		October 2017
Contact:	"Yunlong Song" <[e-mail]>
Contact:	"Chao Yu" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Shows current reserved blocks in system, it may be temporarily
		smaller than target_reserved_blocks, but will gradually
		increase to target_reserved_blocks when more free blocks are
		freed by user later.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/gc_urgent
Date:		August 2017
Contact:	"Jaegeuk Kim" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Do background GC aggressively when set. When gc_urgent = 1,
		background thread starts to do GC by given gc_urgent_sleep_time
		interval. When gc_urgent = 2, F2FS will lower the bar of
		checking idle in order to process outstanding discard commands
		and GC a little bit aggressively. It is set to 0 by default.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/gc_urgent_sleep_time
Date:		August 2017
Contact:	"Jaegeuk Kim" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Controls sleep time of GC urgent mode. Set to 500ms by default.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/readdir_ra
Date:		November 2017
Contact:	"Sheng Yong" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Controls readahead inode block in readdir. Enabled by default.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/gc_pin_file_thresh
Date:		January 2018
Contact:	Jaegeuk Kim <[e-mail]>
Description:	This indicates how many GC can be failed for the pinned
		file. If it exceeds this, F2FS doesn't guarantee its pinning
		state. 2048 trials is set by default.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/extension_list
Date:		Feburary 2018
Contact:	"Chao Yu" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Used to control configure extension list:
		- Query: cat /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/extension_list
		- Add: echo '[h/c]extension' > /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/extension_list
		- Del: echo '[h/c]!extension' > /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/extension_list
		- [h] means add/del hot file extension
		- [c] means add/del cold file extension

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/unusable
Date		April 2019
Contact:	"Daniel Rosenberg" <[e-mail]>
Description:	If checkpoint=disable, it displays the number of blocks that
		are unusable.
		If checkpoint=enable it displays the number of blocks that
		would be unusable if checkpoint=disable were to be set.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/encoding
Date		July 2019
Contact:	"Daniel Rosenberg" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Displays name and version of the encoding set for the filesystem.
		If no encoding is set, displays (none)

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/free_segments
Date:		September 2019
Contact:	"Hridya Valsaraju" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Number of free segments in disk.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/cp_foreground_calls
Date:		September 2019
Contact:	"Hridya Valsaraju" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Number of checkpoint operations performed on demand. Available when
		CONFIG_F2FS_STAT_FS=y.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/cp_background_calls
Date:		September 2019
Contact:	"Hridya Valsaraju" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Number of checkpoint operations performed in the background to
		free segments. Available when CONFIG_F2FS_STAT_FS=y.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/gc_foreground_calls
Date:		September 2019
Contact:	"Hridya Valsaraju" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Number of garbage collection operations performed on demand.
		Available when CONFIG_F2FS_STAT_FS=y.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/gc_background_calls
Date:		September 2019
Contact:	"Hridya Valsaraju" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Number of garbage collection operations triggered in background.
		Available when CONFIG_F2FS_STAT_FS=y.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/moved_blocks_foreground
Date:		September 2019
Contact:	"Hridya Valsaraju" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Number of blocks moved by garbage collection in foreground.
		Available when CONFIG_F2FS_STAT_FS=y.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/moved_blocks_background
Date:		September 2019
Contact:	"Hridya Valsaraju" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Number of blocks moved by garbage collection in background.
		Available when CONFIG_F2FS_STAT_FS=y.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/avg_vblocks
Date:		September 2019
Contact:	"Hridya Valsaraju" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Average number of valid blocks.
		Available when CONFIG_F2FS_STAT_FS=y.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/mounted_time_sec
Date:		February 2020
Contact:	"Jaegeuk Kim" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Show the mounted time in secs of this partition.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/data_io_flag
Date:		April 2020
Contact:	"Jaegeuk Kim" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Give a way to attach REQ_META|FUA to data writes
		given temperature-based bits. Now the bits indicate:

		+-------------------+-------------------+
		|      REQ_META     |      REQ_FUA      |
		+------+------+-----+------+------+-----+
		|    5 |    4 |   3 |    2 |    1 |   0 |
		+------+------+-----+------+------+-----+
		| Cold | Warm | Hot | Cold | Warm | Hot |
		+------+------+-----+------+------+-----+

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/node_io_flag
Date:		June 2020
Contact:	"Jaegeuk Kim" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Give a way to attach REQ_META|FUA to node writes
		given temperature-based bits. Now the bits indicate:

		+-------------------+-------------------+
		|      REQ_META     |      REQ_FUA      |
		+------+------+-----+------+------+-----+
		|    5 |    4 |   3 |    2 |    1 |   0 |
		+------+------+-----+------+------+-----+
		| Cold | Warm | Hot | Cold | Warm | Hot |
		+------+------+-----+------+------+-----+

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/iostat_period_ms
Date:		April 2020
Contact:	"Daeho Jeong" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Give a way to change iostat_period time. 3secs by default.
		The new iostat trace gives stats gap given the period.
What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/max_io_bytes
Date:		December 2020
Contact:	"Jaegeuk Kim" <[e-mail]>
Description:	This gives a control to limit the bio size in f2fs.
		Default is zero, which will follow underlying block layer limit,
		whereas, if it has a certain bytes value, f2fs won't submit a
		bio larger than that size.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/stat/sb_status
Date:		December 2020
Contact:	"Chao Yu" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Show status of f2fs superblock in real time.

		====== ===================== =================================
		value  sb status macro       description
		0x1    SBI_IS_DIRTY          dirty flag for checkpoint
		0x2    SBI_IS_CLOSE          specify unmounting
		0x4    SBI_NEED_FSCK         need fsck.f2fs to fix
		0x8    SBI_POR_DOING         recovery is doing or not
		0x10   SBI_NEED_SB_WRITE     need to recover superblock
		0x20   SBI_NEED_CP           need to checkpoint
		0x40   SBI_IS_SHUTDOWN       shutdown by ioctl
		0x80   SBI_IS_RECOVERED      recovered orphan/data
		0x100  SBI_CP_DISABLED       CP was disabled last mount
		0x200  SBI_CP_DISABLED_QUICK CP was disabled quickly
		0x400  SBI_QUOTA_NEED_FLUSH  need to flush quota info in CP
		0x800  SBI_QUOTA_SKIP_FLUSH  skip flushing quota in current CP
		0x1000 SBI_QUOTA_NEED_REPAIR quota file may be corrupted
		0x2000 SBI_IS_RESIZEFS       resizefs is in process
		====== ===================== =================================

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/ckpt_thread_ioprio
Date:		January 2021
Contact:	"Daeho Jeong" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Give a way to change checkpoint merge daemon's io priority.
		Its default value is "be,3", which means "BE" I/O class and
		I/O priority "3". We can select the class between "rt" and "be",
		and set the I/O priority within valid range of it. "," delimiter
		is necessary in between I/O class and priority number.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/ovp_segments
Date:		March 2021
Contact:	"Jaegeuk Kim" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Shows the number of overprovision segments.

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/compr_written_block
Date:		March 2021
Contact:	"Daeho Jeong" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Show the block count written after compression since mount. Note
		that when the compressed blocks are deleted, this count doesn't
		decrease. If you write "0" here, you can initialize
		compr_written_block and compr_saved_block to "0".

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/compr_saved_block
Date:		March 2021
Contact:	"Daeho Jeong" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Show the saved block count with compression since mount. Note
		that when the compressed blocks are deleted, this count doesn't
		decrease. If you write "0" here, you can initialize
		compr_written_block and compr_saved_block to "0".

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/compr_new_inode
Date:		March 2021
Contact:	"Daeho Jeong" <[e-mail]>
Description:	Show the count of inode newly enabled for compression since mount.
		Note that when the compression is disabled for the files, this count
		doesn't decrease. If you write "0" here, you can initialize
		compr_new_inode to "0".

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/atgc_candidate_ratio
Date:		May 2021
Contact:	"Chao Yu" <[e-mail]>
Description:	When ATGC is on, it controls candidate ratio in order to limit total
		number of potential victim in all candidates, the value should be in
		range of [0, 100], by default it was initialized as 20(%).

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/atgc_candidate_count
Date:		May 2021
Contact:	"Chao Yu" <[e-mail]>
Description:	When ATGC is on, it controls candidate count in order to limit total
		number of potential victim in all candidates, by default it was
		initialized as 10 (sections).

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/atgc_age_weight
Date:		May 2021
Contact:	"Chao Yu" <[e-mail]>
Description:	When ATGC is on, it controls age weight to balance weight proportion
		in between aging and valid blocks, the value should be in range of
		[0, 100], by default it was initialized as 60(%).

What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/atgc_age_threshold
Date:		May 2021
Contact:	"Chao Yu" <[e-mail]>
Description:	When ATGC is on, it controls age threshold to bypass GCing young
		candidates whose age is not beyond the threshold, by default it was
		initialized as 604800 seconds (equals to 7 days).