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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt20
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt16
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt39
3 files changed, 73 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
index 6a4adcae9f9a..560f88dc7090 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
@@ -86,9 +86,21 @@ Alex is working on a new set of patches right now.
When mounting an ext4 filesystem, the following option are accepted:
(*) == default
-extents ext4 will use extents to address file data. The
+extents (*) ext4 will use extents to address file data. The
file system will no longer be mountable by ext3.
+noextents ext4 will not use extents for newly created files
+
+journal_checksum Enable checksumming of the journal transactions.
+ This will allow the recovery code in e2fsck and the
+ kernel to detect corruption in the kernel. It is a
+ compatible change and will be ignored by older kernels.
+
+journal_async_commit Commit block can be written to disk without waiting
+ for descriptor blocks. If enabled older kernels cannot
+ mount the device. This will enable 'journal_checksum'
+ internally.
+
journal=update Update the ext4 file system's journal to the current
format.
@@ -196,6 +208,12 @@ nobh (a) cache disk block mapping information
"nobh" option tries to avoid associating buffer
heads (supported only for "writeback" mode).
+mballoc (*) Use the multiple block allocator for block allocation
+nomballoc disabled multiple block allocator for block allocation.
+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.
Data Mode
---------
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt
index ed55238023a9..c318a8bbb1ef 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ Features which OCFS2 does not support yet:
- Directory change notification (F_NOTIFY)
- Distributed Caching (F_SETLEASE/F_GETLEASE/break_lease)
- POSIX ACLs
- - readpages / writepages (not user visible)
Mount options
=============
@@ -62,3 +61,18 @@ data=writeback Data ordering is not preserved, data may be written
preferred_slot=0(*) During mount, try to use this filesystem slot first. If
it is in use by another node, the first empty one found
will be chosen. Invalid values will be ignored.
+commit=nrsec (*) Ocfs2 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.
+localalloc=8(*) Allows custom localalloc size in MB. If the value is too
+ large, the fs will silently revert it to the default.
+ Localalloc is not enabled for local mounts.
+localflocks This disables cluster aware flock.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index dec99455321f..4413a2d4646f 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -857,6 +857,45 @@ CPUs.
The "procs_blocked" line gives the number of processes currently blocked,
waiting for I/O to complete.
+1.9 Ext4 file system parameters
+------------------------------
+Ext4 file system have one directory per partition under /proc/fs/ext4/
+# ls /proc/fs/ext4/hdc/
+group_prealloc max_to_scan mb_groups mb_history min_to_scan order2_req
+stats stream_req
+
+mb_groups:
+This file gives the details of mutiblock allocator buddy cache of free blocks
+
+mb_history:
+Multiblock allocation history.
+
+stats:
+This file indicate whether the multiblock allocator should start collecting
+statistics. The statistics are shown during unmount
+
+group_prealloc:
+The multiblock allocator normalize the block allocation request to
+group_prealloc filesystem blocks if we don't have strip value set.
+The stripe value can be specified at mount time or during mke2fs.
+
+max_to_scan:
+How long multiblock allocator can look for a best extent (in found extents)
+
+min_to_scan:
+How long multiblock allocator must look for a best extent
+
+order2_req:
+Multiblock allocator use 2^N search using buddies only for requests greater
+than or equal to order2_req. The request size is specfied in file system
+blocks. A value of 2 indicate only if the requests are greater than or equal
+to 4 blocks.
+
+stream_req:
+Files smaller than stream_req are served by the stream allocator, whose
+purpose is to pack requests as close each to other as possible to
+produce smooth I/O traffic. Avalue of 16 indicate that file smaller than 16
+filesystem block size will use group based preallocation.
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