From: Andrew Clayton Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 21:22:09 +0100 Message-ID: <20090518212209.17c46cee@digital-domain.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from c.painless.aaisp.net.uk ([81.187.30.53]:48432 "EHLO c.painless.aaisp.net.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755863AbZERUxy (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 May 2009 16:53:54 -0400 Received: from alpha.digital-domain.net ([217.169.2.51] helo=localhost.localdomain) by c.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1M69Le-0001Fq-0c for linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 18 May 2009 21:22:10 +0100 Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Update the ext3 document with the fact that data=writeback is now the default journaling mode. Signed-off-by: Andrew Clayton --- linux-2.6/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt.orig 2009-05-18 20:48:27.084220753 +0100 +++ linux-2.6/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt 2009-05-18 20:49:01.023225288 +0100 @@ -39,11 +39,11 @@ data=journal All data are committed into the journal prior to being written into the main file system. -data=ordered (*) All data are forced directly out to the main file +data=ordered All data are forced directly out to the main file system prior to its metadata being committed to the journal. -data=writeback Data ordering is not preserved, data may be written +data=writeback (*) Data ordering is not preserved, data may be written into the main file system after its metadata has been committed to the journal.