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| author | David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> | 2008-07-11 17:36:25 +0400 |
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| committer | David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> | 2008-07-11 17:36:25 +0400 |
| commit | a8931ef380c92d121ae74ecfb03b2d63f72eea6f (patch) | |
| tree | 980fb6b019e11e6cb1ece55b7faff184721a8053 /Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt | |
| parent | 90574d0a4d4b73308ae54a2a57a4f3f1fa98e984 (diff) | |
| parent | e5a5816f7875207cb0a0a7032e39a4686c5e10a4 (diff) | |
| download | linux-a8931ef380c92d121ae74ecfb03b2d63f72eea6f.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
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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. |