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| author |   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2019-12-23 06:59:19 -0500 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2019-12-23 06:59:19 -0500 |
| commit | 749e4121d6ee7fd4495779730fbc6ae800d0317c (patch) | |
| tree | 9270ebabd9e3b57ef0427495ec9228f52454b608 /Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst | |
| parent | tty: serial: 21285: stop using the unused[] variable from struct uart_port (diff) | |
| parent | Linux 5.5-rc3 (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-749e4121d6ee7fd4495779730fbc6ae800d0317c.tar.xz linux-dev-749e4121d6ee7fd4495779730fbc6ae800d0317c.zip | |
Merge 5.5-rc3 into tty-next
We need the tty/serial fixes in here as well.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst index 059ddcbe769d..9bc93f0ce0c9 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst @@ -181,14 +181,17 @@ When mounting an ext4 filesystem, the following option are accepted: system after its metadata has been committed to the journal. commit=nrsec (*) - Ext4 can be told to sync all its data and metadata every 'nrsec' - seconds. The default value is 5 seconds. This means that if you lose - your power, you will lose as much as the latest 5 seconds of work (your - filesystem will not be damaged though, thanks to the journaling). This - default value (or any low value) will hurt performance, but it's good - for data-safety. Setting it to 0 will have the same effect as leaving - it at the default (5 seconds). Setting it to very large values will - improve performance. + This setting limits the maximum age of the running transaction to + 'nrsec' seconds. The default value is 5 seconds. This means that if + you lose your power, you will lose as much as the latest 5 seconds of + metadata changes (your filesystem will not be damaged though, thanks + to the journaling). This default value (or any low value) will hurt + performance, but it's good for data-safety. Setting it to 0 will have + the same effect as leaving it at the default (5 seconds). Setting it + to very large values will improve performance. Note that due to + delayed allocation even older data can be lost on power failure since + writeback of those data begins only after time set in + /proc/sys/vm/dirty_expire_centisecs. barrier=<0|1(*)>, barrier(*), nobarrier This enables/disables the use of write barriers in the jbd code. |