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| author | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2008-07-14 15:29:34 -0600 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2008-07-14 15:29:34 -0600 |
| commit | 2fceef397f9880b212a74c418290ce69e7ac00eb (patch) | |
| tree | d9cc09ab992825ef7fede4a688103503e3caf655 /Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt | |
| parent | feae1ef116ed381625d3731c5ae4f4ebcb3fa302 (diff) | |
| parent | bce7f793daec3e65ec5c5705d2457b81fe7b5725 (diff) | |
Merge commit 'v2.6.26' into bkl-removal
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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. |