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author | Andrea Bastoni <bastoni@cs.unc.edu> | 2010-05-30 19:16:45 -0400 |
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committer | Andrea Bastoni <bastoni@cs.unc.edu> | 2010-05-30 19:16:45 -0400 |
commit | ada47b5fe13d89735805b566185f4885f5a3f750 (patch) | |
tree | 644b88f8a71896307d71438e9b3af49126ffb22b /Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt | |
parent | 43e98717ad40a4ae64545b5ba047c7b86aa44f4f (diff) | |
parent | 3280f21d43ee541f97f8cda5792150d2dbec20d5 (diff) |
Merge branch 'wip-2.6.34' into old-private-masterarchived-private-master
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt index 6d94e0696f8c..e1def1786e50 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt | |||
@@ -153,8 +153,8 @@ journal_dev=devnum When the external journal device's major/minor numbers | |||
153 | identified through its new major/minor numbers encoded | 153 | identified through its new major/minor numbers encoded |
154 | in devnum. | 154 | in devnum. |
155 | 155 | ||
156 | noload Don't load the journal on mounting. Note that | 156 | norecovery Don't load the journal on mounting. Note that |
157 | if the filesystem was not unmounted cleanly, | 157 | noload if the filesystem was not unmounted cleanly, |
158 | skipping the journal replay will lead to the | 158 | skipping the journal replay will lead to the |
159 | filesystem containing inconsistencies that can | 159 | filesystem containing inconsistencies that can |
160 | lead to any number of problems. | 160 | lead to any number of problems. |
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ nobarrier This also requires an IO stack which can support | |||
196 | also be used to enable or disable barriers, for | 196 | also be used to enable or disable barriers, for |
197 | consistency with other ext4 mount options. | 197 | consistency with other ext4 mount options. |
198 | 198 | ||
199 | inode_readahead=n This tuning parameter controls the maximum | 199 | inode_readahead_blks=n This tuning parameter controls the maximum |
200 | number of inode table blocks that ext4's inode | 200 | number of inode table blocks that ext4's inode |
201 | table readahead algorithm will pre-read into | 201 | table readahead algorithm will pre-read into |
202 | the buffer cache. The default value is 32 blocks. | 202 | the buffer cache. The default value is 32 blocks. |
@@ -353,6 +353,12 @@ noauto_da_alloc replacing existing files via patterns such as | |||
353 | system crashes before the delayed allocation | 353 | system crashes before the delayed allocation |
354 | blocks are forced to disk. | 354 | blocks are forced to disk. |
355 | 355 | ||
356 | discard Controls whether ext4 should issue discard/TRIM | ||
357 | nodiscard(*) commands to the underlying block device when | ||
358 | blocks are freed. This is useful for SSD devices | ||
359 | and sparse/thinly-provisioned LUNs, but it is off | ||
360 | by default until sufficient testing has been done. | ||
361 | |||
356 | Data Mode | 362 | Data Mode |
357 | ========= | 363 | ========= |
358 | There are 3 different data modes: | 364 | There are 3 different data modes: |