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| -rw-r--r-- | 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 b100adc38ad..293855e9500 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 |