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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt index 6a4adcae9f9a..560f88dc7090 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt @@ -86,9 +86,21 @@ Alex is working on a new set of patches right now. When mounting an ext4 filesystem, the following option are accepted: (*) == default -extents ext4 will use extents to address file data. The +extents (*) ext4 will use extents to address file data. The file system will no longer be mountable by ext3. +noextents ext4 will not use extents for newly created files + +journal_checksum Enable checksumming of the journal transactions. + This will allow the recovery code in e2fsck and the + kernel to detect corruption in the kernel. It is a + compatible change and will be ignored by older kernels. + +journal_async_commit Commit block can be written to disk without waiting + for descriptor blocks. If enabled older kernels cannot + mount the device. This will enable 'journal_checksum' + internally. + journal=update Update the ext4 file system's journal to the current format. @@ -196,6 +208,12 @@ nobh (a) cache disk block mapping information "nobh" option tries to avoid associating buffer heads (supported only for "writeback" mode). +mballoc (*) Use the multiple block allocator for block allocation +nomballoc disabled multiple block allocator for block allocation. +stripe=n Number of filesystem blocks that mballoc will try + to use for allocation size and alignment. For RAID5/6 + systems this should be the number of data + disks * RAID chunk size in file system blocks. Data Mode --------- |