From: Stefan Hajnoczi Subject: [PATCH] ext3: update documentation with barrier=1 default Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:32:32 +0100 Message-ID: <1332923552-9854-1-git-send-email-stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap , Christoph Hellwig , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Stefan Hajnoczi To: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org 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 --- Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt | 6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt index b100adc..293855e 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 -- 1.7.9.1