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| author | Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> | 2010-08-04 14:05:07 +0200 |
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| committer | Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> | 2010-08-04 14:05:07 +0200 |
| commit | 7a996d3ab150bb0e1b71fa182f70199a703efdd1 (patch) | |
| tree | 96a36947d90c9b96580899abd38cb3b70cd9d40b /Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt | |
| parent | 7cf3d73b4360e91b14326632ab1aeda4cb26308d (diff) | |
| parent | 9fe6206f400646a2322096b56c59891d530e8d51 (diff) | |
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Merge commit 'v2.6.35' into kbuild/kconfig
Conflicts:
scripts/kconfig/Makefile
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt index 867c5b50cb42..272f80d5f966 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. |