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| author | Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com> | 2008-01-29 00:19:52 -0500 |
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| committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2008-01-29 00:19:52 -0500 |
| commit | c9de560ded61faa5b754137b7753da252391c55a (patch) | |
| tree | 2c4311377c4aa72450e27f531e198fe3e1c67db0 /Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt | |
| parent | 1988b51e476bd097d910c9245b53f2e38aedaf0d (diff) | |
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ext4: Add multi block allocator for ext4
Signed-off-by: Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt index 4f329afe20ec..560f88dc7090 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt @@ -86,9 +86,11 @@ Alex is working on a new set of patches right now. When mounting an ext4 filesystem, the following option are accepted: (*) == default -extents ext4 will use extents to address file data. The +extents (*) ext4 will use extents to address file data. The file system will no longer be mountable by ext3. +noextents ext4 will not use extents for newly created files + journal_checksum Enable checksumming of the journal transactions. This will allow the recovery code in e2fsck and the kernel to detect corruption in the kernel. It is a @@ -206,6 +208,12 @@ nobh (a) cache disk block mapping information "nobh" option tries to avoid associating buffer heads (supported only for "writeback" mode). +mballoc (*) Use the multiple block allocator for block allocation +nomballoc disabled multiple block allocator for block allocation. +stripe=n Number of filesystem blocks that mballoc will try + to use for allocation size and alignment. For RAID5/6 + systems this should be the number of data + disks * RAID chunk size in file system blocks. Data Mode --------- |