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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-09-30 12:32:30 -0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-09-30 12:32:30 -0400 |
commit | 9f44fdc5188bc1a0bbcc3453d57f01e49ba868d9 (patch) | |
tree | a636c14f741e662814fe95bf35f22659411f1733 /Documentation | |
parent | 4c8f1cb266cba4d1052f524d04df839d8f732ace (diff) | |
parent | c1fccc0696bcaff6008c11865091f5ec4b0937ab (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:
ext4: Fix time encoding with extra epoch bits
ext4: Add a stub for mpage_da_data in the trace header
jbd2: Use tracepoints for history file
ext4: Use tracepoints for mb_history trace file
ext4, jbd2: Drop unneeded printks at mount and unmount time
ext4: Handle nested ext4_journal_start/stop calls without a journal
ext4: Make sure ext4_dirty_inode() updates the inode in no journal mode
ext4: Avoid updating the inode table bh twice in no journal mode
ext4: EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT: Check for different original and donor inodes first
ext4: async direct IO for holes and fallocate support
ext4: Use end_io callback to avoid direct I/O fallback to buffered I/O
ext4: Split uninitialized extents for direct I/O
ext4: release reserved quota when block reservation for delalloc retry
ext4: Adjust ext4_da_writepages() to write out larger contiguous chunks
ext4: Fix hueristic which avoids group preallocation for closed files
ext4: Use ext4_msg() for ext4_da_writepage() errors
ext4: Update documentation about quota mount options
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt | 13 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 1 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt index 18b5ec8cea45..bf4f4b7e11b3 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt | |||
@@ -282,9 +282,16 @@ stripe=n Number of filesystem blocks that mballoc will try | |||
282 | to use for allocation size and alignment. For RAID5/6 | 282 | to use for allocation size and alignment. For RAID5/6 |
283 | systems this should be the number of data | 283 | systems this should be the number of data |
284 | disks * RAID chunk size in file system blocks. | 284 | disks * RAID chunk size in file system blocks. |
285 | delalloc (*) Deferring block allocation until write-out time. | 285 | |
286 | nodelalloc Disable delayed allocation. Blocks are allocation | 286 | delalloc (*) Defer block allocation until just before ext4 |
287 | when data is copied from user to page cache. | 287 | writes out the block(s) in question. This |
288 | allows ext4 to better allocation decisions | ||
289 | more efficiently. | ||
290 | nodelalloc Disable delayed allocation. Blocks are allocated | ||
291 | when the data is copied from userspace to the | ||
292 | page cache, either via the write(2) system call | ||
293 | or when an mmap'ed page which was previously | ||
294 | unallocated is written for the first time. | ||
288 | 295 | ||
289 | max_batch_time=usec Maximum amount of time ext4 should wait for | 296 | max_batch_time=usec Maximum amount of time ext4 should wait for |
290 | additional filesystem operations to be batch | 297 | additional filesystem operations to be batch |
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index b5aee7838a00..2c48f945546b 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | |||
@@ -1113,7 +1113,6 @@ Table 1-12: Files in /proc/fs/ext4/<devname> | |||
1113 | .............................................................................. | 1113 | .............................................................................. |
1114 | File Content | 1114 | File Content |
1115 | mb_groups details of multiblock allocator buddy cache of free blocks | 1115 | mb_groups details of multiblock allocator buddy cache of free blocks |
1116 | mb_history multiblock allocation history | ||
1117 | .............................................................................. | 1116 | .............................................................................. |
1118 | 1117 | ||
1119 | 1118 | ||