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authorStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2012-03-28 12:32:32 +0400
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2012-05-25 18:19:55 +0400
commit21848d08bea8f057b3e48c00165dfd42e27eb4e9 (patch)
tree8a485826426a3de0d748367695149178c9e14484 /Documentation
parent76dab97cd8e21e9d29ed41278b9a5308869a50e3 (diff)
downloadlinux-21848d08bea8f057b3e48c00165dfd42e27eb4e9.tar.xz
doc: ext3: update documentation with barrier=1 default
Commit 00eacd6 ("ext3: make ext3 mount default to barrier=1") changed the default barrier mount option for ext3. The documentation needs to be updated, so this patch does that. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt
index b100adc38adb..293855e95000 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt
@@ -59,9 +59,9 @@ commit=nrsec (*) Ext3 can be told to sync all its data and metadata
Setting it to very large values will improve
performance.
-barrier=<0(*)|1> This enables/disables the use of write barriers in
-barrier the jbd code. barrier=0 disables, barrier=1 enables.
-nobarrier (*) This also requires an IO stack which can support
+barrier=<0|1(*)> This enables/disables the use of write barriers in
+barrier (*) the jbd code. barrier=0 disables, barrier=1 enables.
+nobarrier This also requires an IO stack which can support
barriers, and if jbd gets an error on a barrier
write, it will disable again with a warning.
Write barriers enforce proper on-disk ordering