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authorJohann Lombardi <johann.lombardi@bull.net>2006-01-08 12:03:20 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-01-09 07:13:56 +0300
commit71b9625744b7d4a6a2416389a5ba464bdf11f07f (patch)
tree0926e8274cfa5030fccfb0955bd0db45e60e0e7c /Documentation
parentbf066c7db775a04bd761f8ea206f5522d0cf40ff (diff)
downloadlinux-71b9625744b7d4a6a2416389a5ba464bdf11f07f.tar.xz
[PATCH] ext3: external journal device as a mount option
The patch below adds a new mount option to allow the external journal device to be specified. The syntax is as follows: # mount -t ext3 -o journal_dev=0x0820 ... where 0x0820 means major=8 and minor=32. Signed-off-by: Johann Lombardi <johann.lombardi@bull.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt
index 9840d5b8d5b9..22e4040564d5 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt
@@ -22,6 +22,11 @@ journal=inum When a journal already exists, this option is
the inode which will represent the ext3 file
system's journal file.
+journal_dev=devnum When the external journal device's major/minor numbers
+ have changed, this option allows to specify the new
+ journal location. The journal device is identified
+ through its new major/minor numbers encoded in devnum.
+
noload Don't load the journal on mounting.
data=journal All data are committed into the journal prior