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@@ -86,9 +86,11 @@ 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
@@ -206,6 +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
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