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| author | Johann Lombardi <johann.lombardi@bull.net> | 2006-01-08 01:03:20 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-01-08 20:13:56 -0800 |
| commit | 71b9625744b7d4a6a2416389a5ba464bdf11f07f (patch) | |
| tree | 0926e8274cfa5030fccfb0955bd0db45e60e0e7c /Documentation/filesystems | |
| parent | bf066c7db775a04bd761f8ea206f5522d0cf40ff (diff) | |
| download | lwn-71b9625744b7d4a6a2416389a5ba464bdf11f07f.tar.gz lwn-71b9625744b7d4a6a2416389a5ba464bdf11f07f.zip | |
[PATCH] ext3: external journal device as a mount option
The patch below adds a new mount option to allow the external journal
device to be specified.
The syntax is as follows:
# mount -t ext3 -o journal_dev=0x0820 ...
where 0x0820 means major=8 and minor=32.
Signed-off-by: Johann Lombardi <johann.lombardi@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt index 9840d5b8d5b9..22e4040564d5 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt @@ -22,6 +22,11 @@ journal=inum When a journal already exists, this option is the inode which will represent the ext3 file system's journal file. +journal_dev=devnum When the external journal device's major/minor numbers + have changed, this option allows to specify the new + journal location. The journal device is identified + through its new major/minor numbers encoded in devnum. + noload Don't load the journal on mounting. data=journal All data are committed into the journal prior |