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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt index 6a4adcae9f9a..560f88dc7090 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt | |||
@@ -86,9 +86,21 @@ Alex is working on a new set of patches right now. | |||
86 | When mounting an ext4 filesystem, the following option are accepted: | 86 | When mounting an ext4 filesystem, the following option are accepted: |
87 | (*) == default | 87 | (*) == default |
88 | 88 | ||
89 | extents ext4 will use extents to address file data. The | 89 | extents (*) 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 | ||
92 | noextents ext4 will not use extents for newly created files | ||
93 | |||
94 | journal_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 | |||
99 | journal_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 | |||
92 | journal=update Update the ext4 file system's journal to the current | 104 | journal=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 | ||
211 | mballoc (*) Use the multiple block allocator for block allocation | ||
212 | nomballoc disabled multiple block allocator for block allocation. | ||
213 | stripe=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 | ||
200 | Data Mode | 218 | Data Mode |
201 | --------- | 219 | --------- |