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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-06-25 12:27:29 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-06-25 12:27:29 +0200 |
| commit | 5ce001b0e56638c726270d4f9e05d46d4250dfbb (patch) | |
| tree | c21cf007ddef99d5e8b23dde9621bd9152e676a8 /Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt | |
| parent | 7c9f8861e6c9c839f913e49b98c3854daca18f27 (diff) | |
| parent | 543cf4cb3fe6f6cae3651ba918b9c56200b257d0 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'linus' into stackprotectortip-stackprotector-2008-06-25_10.27_Wed
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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 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. |