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@@ -86,9 +86,21 @@ Alex is working on a new set of patches right now.
86When mounting an ext4 filesystem, the following option are accepted: 86When mounting an ext4 filesystem, the following option are accepted:
87(*) == default 87(*) == default
88 88
89extents ext4 will use extents to address file data. The 89extents (*) ext4 will use extents to address file data. The
90 file system will no longer be mountable by ext3. 90 file system will no longer be mountable by ext3.
91 91
92noextents ext4 will not use extents for newly created files
93
94journal_checksum Enable checksumming of the journal transactions.
95 This will allow the recovery code in e2fsck and the
96 kernel to detect corruption in the kernel. It is a
97 compatible change and will be ignored by older kernels.
98
99journal_async_commit Commit block can be written to disk without waiting
100 for descriptor blocks. If enabled older kernels cannot
101 mount the device. This will enable 'journal_checksum'
102 internally.
103
92journal=update Update the ext4 file system's journal to the current 104journal=update Update the ext4 file system's journal to the current
93 format. 105 format.
94 106
@@ -196,6 +208,12 @@ nobh (a) cache disk block mapping information
196 "nobh" option tries to avoid associating buffer 208 "nobh" option tries to avoid associating buffer
197 heads (supported only for "writeback" mode). 209 heads (supported only for "writeback" mode).
198 210
211mballoc (*) Use the multiple block allocator for block allocation
212nomballoc disabled multiple block allocator for block allocation.
213stripe=n Number of filesystem blocks that mballoc will try
214 to use for allocation size and alignment. For RAID5/6
215 systems this should be the number of data
216 disks * RAID chunk size in file system blocks.
199 217
200Data Mode 218Data Mode
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