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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-09-30 09:32:30 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-09-30 09:32:30 -0700
commit9f44fdc5188bc1a0bbcc3453d57f01e49ba868d9 (patch)
treea636c14f741e662814fe95bf35f22659411f1733 /Documentation/filesystems
parent4c8f1cb266cba4d1052f524d04df839d8f732ace (diff)
parentc1fccc0696bcaff6008c11865091f5ec4b0937ab (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.txt13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt1
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>
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File Content
mb_groups details of multiblock allocator buddy cache of free blocks
- mb_history multiblock allocation history
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