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authorBadari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>2006-06-26 11:25:04 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-06-26 20:58:20 +0400
commitade1a29e168ba08b699a418ff5e762315fa33f70 (patch)
treed01dbf3a9da6f76d21e2c0b17f481709b17c8839 /Documentation/filesystems
parent71c0cd7042672fce2463d82183d20bfb574f4cb5 (diff)
downloadlinux-ade1a29e168ba08b699a418ff5e762315fa33f70.tar.xz
[PATCH] ext3: Add "-o bh" option
This patch adds "-o bh" option to force use of buffer_heads. This option is needed when we make "nobh" as default - and if we run into problems. Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt
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--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt
@@ -113,6 +113,14 @@ noquota
grpquota
usrquota
+bh (*) ext3 associates buffer heads to data pages to
+nobh (a) cache disk block mapping information
+ (b) link pages into transaction to provide
+ ordering guarantees.
+ "bh" option forces use of buffer heads.
+ "nobh" option tries to avoid associating buffer
+ heads (supported only for "writeback" mode).
+
Specification
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