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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-12-10 12:33:29 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-12-10 12:33:29 -0500
commit4515c3069da5bfb6f08dbfca499464b4cbdfcb50 (patch)
tree0f067045a0e31f126aebcf3087028639ceb237b4 /Documentation
parenta5eba3f66f812cbc076a1170b3f888ad63f850b2 (diff)
parentfab3a549e204172236779f502eccb4f9bf0dc87d (diff)
Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (47 commits) ext4: Fix potential fiemap deadlock (mmap_sem vs. i_data_sem) ext4: Do not override ext2 or ext3 if built they are built as modules jbd2: Export jbd2_log_start_commit to fix ext4 build ext4: Fix insufficient checks in EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT ext4: Wait for proper transaction commit on fsync ext4: fix incorrect block reservation on quota transfer. ext4: quota macros cleanup ext4: ext4_get_reserved_space() must return bytes instead of blocks ext4: remove blocks from inode prealloc list on failure ext4: wait for log to commit when umounting ext4: Avoid data / filesystem corruption when write fails to copy data ext4: Use ext4 file system driver for ext2/ext3 file system mounts ext4: Return the PTR_ERR of the correct pointer in setup_new_group_blocks() jbd2: Add ENOMEM checking in and for jbd2_journal_write_metadata_buffer() ext4: remove unused parameter wbc from __ext4_journalled_writepage() ext4: remove encountered_congestion trace ext4: move_extent_per_page() cleanup ext4: initialize moved_len before calling ext4_move_extents() ext4: Fix double-free of blocks with EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT ext4: use ext4_data_block_valid() in ext4_free_blocks() ...
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt10
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
index 6d94e0696f8c..af6885c3c821 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
156noload Don't load the journal on mounting. Note that 156norecovery Don't load the journal on mounting. Note that
157 if the filesystem was not unmounted cleanly, 157noload 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.
@@ -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
356discard Controls whether ext4 should issue discard/TRIM
357nodiscard(*) 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
356Data Mode 362Data Mode
357========= 363=========
358There are 3 different data modes: 364There are 3 different data modes: