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| author |   Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> | 2020-01-20 11:08:11 +1000 |
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| committer | Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> | 2020-01-20 11:42:57 +1000 |
| commit | 3d4743131b8de970faa4b979ead0fadfe5d2de9d (patch) | |
| tree | 68e948c2d94d48598dd37e31bb654feb0b43ae4a /Documentation/admin-guide | |
| parent | Merge tag 'amd-drm-next-5.6-2020-01-17' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/linux into drm-next (diff) | |
| parent | Linux 5.5-rc7 (diff) | |
Backmerge v5.5-rc7 into drm-next
msm needs 5.5-rc4, go to the latest.
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst | 19 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/xfs.rst | 2 |
3 files changed, 13 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt index 1c5d2281efc9..2a97aaec8b12 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt @@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ 182 = /dev/perfctr Performance-monitoring counters 183 = /dev/hwrng Generic random number generator 184 = /dev/cpu/microcode CPU microcode update interface - 186 = /dev/atomicps Atomic shapshot of process state data + 186 = /dev/atomicps Atomic snapshot of process state data 187 = /dev/irnet IrNET device 188 = /dev/smbusbios SMBus BIOS 189 = /dev/ussp_ctl User space serial port control 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. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/xfs.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/xfs.rst index fb5b39f73059..ad911be5b5e9 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/xfs.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/xfs.rst @@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ The following sysctls are available for the XFS filesystem: pool. fs.xfs.speculative_prealloc_lifetime - (Units: seconds Min: 1 Default: 300 Max: 86400) + (Units: seconds Min: 1 Default: 300 Max: 86400) The interval at which the background scanning for inodes with unused speculative preallocation runs. The scan removes unused preallocation from clean inodes and releases |