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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-09-30 09:32:30 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-09-30 09:32:30 -0700 |
| commit | 9f44fdc5188bc1a0bbcc3453d57f01e49ba868d9 (patch) | |
| tree | a636c14f741e662814fe95bf35f22659411f1733 /Documentation/filesystems | |
| parent | 4c8f1cb266cba4d1052f524d04df839d8f732ace (diff) | |
| parent | c1fccc0696bcaff6008c11865091f5ec4b0937ab (diff) | |
Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
ext4: Fix time encoding with extra epoch bits
ext4: Add a stub for mpage_da_data in the trace header
jbd2: Use tracepoints for history file
ext4: Use tracepoints for mb_history trace file
ext4, jbd2: Drop unneeded printks at mount and unmount time
ext4: Handle nested ext4_journal_start/stop calls without a journal
ext4: Make sure ext4_dirty_inode() updates the inode in no journal mode
ext4: Avoid updating the inode table bh twice in no journal mode
ext4: EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT: Check for different original and donor inodes first
ext4: async direct IO for holes and fallocate support
ext4: Use end_io callback to avoid direct I/O fallback to buffered I/O
ext4: Split uninitialized extents for direct I/O
ext4: release reserved quota when block reservation for delalloc retry
ext4: Adjust ext4_da_writepages() to write out larger contiguous chunks
ext4: Fix hueristic which avoids group preallocation for closed files
ext4: Use ext4_msg() for ext4_da_writepage() errors
ext4: Update documentation about quota mount options
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 1 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt index 18b5ec8cea4..bf4f4b7e11b 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt @@ -282,9 +282,16 @@ 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. -delalloc (*) Deferring block allocation until write-out time. -nodelalloc Disable delayed allocation. Blocks are allocation - when data is copied from user to page cache. + +delalloc (*) Defer block allocation until just before ext4 + writes out the block(s) in question. This + allows ext4 to better allocation decisions + more efficiently. +nodelalloc Disable delayed allocation. Blocks are allocated + when the data is copied from userspace to the + page cache, either via the write(2) system call + or when an mmap'ed page which was previously + unallocated is written for the first time. max_batch_time=usec Maximum amount of time ext4 should wait for additional filesystem operations to be batch diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index b5aee7838a0..2c48f945546 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -1113,7 +1113,6 @@ Table 1-12: Files in /proc/fs/ext4/<devname> .............................................................................. File Content mb_groups details of multiblock allocator buddy cache of free blocks - mb_history multiblock allocation history .............................................................................. |