From: Fabian Frederick Subject: [PATCH V2 linux-next] ext4: fix block_validity definition Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 08:25:40 +0100 Message-ID: <1478503540-4003-1-git-send-email-fabf@skynet.be> Cc: "Darrick J . Wong" , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Fabian Frederick To: tytso@mit.edu Return-path: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org Fix ext4 documentation according to commit 45f1a9c3f63d ("ext4: enable block_validity by default") Also fix some typos. Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick --- V2: Replace beginning of the definition (suggested by Darrick). Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt index 6c0108e..1d92713 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt @@ -351,14 +351,13 @@ nouid32 Disables 32-bit UIDs and GIDs. This is for interoperability with older kernels which only store and expect 16-bit values. -block_validity This options allows to enables/disables the in-kernel +block_validity(*) These options enable or disable the in-kernel noblock_validity facility for tracking filesystem metadata blocks within internal data structures. This allows multi- block allocator and other routines to quickly locate extents which might overlap with filesystem metadata - blocks. This option is intended for debugging - purposes and since it negatively affects the - performance, it is off by default. + blocks. Initially intended for debugging, it's now + enabled by default. dioread_lock Controls whether or not ext4 should use the DIO read dioread_nolock locking. If the dioread_nolock option is specified -- 2.7.4