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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2008-06-13 20:52:39 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2008-06-13 20:52:39 -0700 |
| commit | 4ae127d1b6c71f9240dd4245f240e6dd8fc98014 (patch) | |
| tree | b7aa27b3e0c655f4613fe2146cb57d7f69e421f6 /Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt | |
| parent | 875ec4333b99144e2589e900a0bcd2c25c757b27 (diff) | |
| parent | 7775c9753b94fe429dc4323360d6502c95e0dd6e (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
drivers/net/smc911x.c
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt')
| -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 560f88dc7090..0c5086db8352 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. |