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| author | Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> | 2010-05-22 00:36:56 -0600 |
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| committer | Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> | 2010-05-22 00:36:56 -0600 |
| commit | cf9b59e9d3e008591d1f54830f570982bb307a0d (patch) | |
| tree | 113478ce8fd8c832ba726ffdf59b82cb46356476 /Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt | |
| parent | 44504b2bebf8b5823c59484e73096a7d6574471d (diff) | |
| parent | f4b87dee923342505e1ddba8d34ce9de33e75050 (diff) | |
Merge remote branch 'origin' into secretlab/next-devicetree
Merging in current state of Linus' tree to deal with merge conflicts and
build failures in vio.c after merge.
Conflicts:
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-cpm.c
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mpc.c
drivers/net/gianfar.c
Also fixed up one line in arch/powerpc/kernel/vio.c to use the
correct node pointer.
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt | 15 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt index 867c5b50cb4..272f80d5f96 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt @@ -59,8 +59,19 @@ commit=nrsec (*) Ext3 can be told to sync all its data and metadata Setting it to very large values will improve performance. -barrier=1 This enables/disables barriers. barrier=0 disables - it, barrier=1 enables it. +barrier=<0(*)|1> This enables/disables the use of write barriers in +barrier the jbd code. barrier=0 disables, barrier=1 enables. +nobarrier (*) This also requires an IO stack which can support + barriers, and if jbd gets an error on a barrier + write, it will disable again with a warning. + Write barriers enforce proper on-disk ordering + of journal commits, making volatile disk write caches + safe to use, at some performance penalty. If + your disks are battery-backed in one way or another, + disabling barriers may safely improve performance. + The mount options "barrier" and "nobarrier" can + also be used to enable or disable barriers, for + consistency with other ext3 mount options. orlov (*) This enables the new Orlov block allocator. It is enabled by default. |