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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-07-08 07:47:47 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-07-08 07:47:47 +0200 |
| commit | 93022136fff9e6130aa128a5ed8a599e93ac813c (patch) | |
| tree | 185390fb75a3d7423cc508610b76637c957205b9 /Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt | |
| parent | c49c412a47b5102516d3313d4eba38cb1e968721 (diff) | |
| parent | b7279469d66b55119784b8b9529c99c1955fe747 (diff) | |
Merge commit 'v2.6.26-rc9' into x86/cpu
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt index 560f88dc709..0c5086db835 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt @@ -139,8 +139,16 @@ commit=nrsec (*) Ext4 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 + the jbd code. barrier=0 disables, barrier=1 enables. + 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. orlov (*) This enables the new Orlov block allocator. It is enabled by default. |