From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
mtk.manpages@gmail.com, rdunlap@xenotime.net,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] document ext3 a bit better
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 23:34:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090104223433.GC1913@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090104023211.GJ4758@mit.edu>
ext3 has quite unexpected semantics or "ro" and defaults are usually
not what they are documented to be, due to mkfs override.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt
index 9dd2a3b..113db1f 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt
@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ Options
When mounting an ext3 filesystem, the following option are accepted:
(*) == default
+ro Mount filesystem read only. Note that ext3 will replay
+ the journal (and thus write to the partition) even when
+ mounted "read only". "ro, noload" can be used to prevent
+ writes to the filesystem.
+
journal=update Update the ext3 file system's journal to the current
format.
@@ -27,7 +32,9 @@ journal_dev=devnum When the external jou
identified through its new major/minor numbers encoded
in devnum.
-noload Don't load the journal on mounting.
+noload Don't load the journal on mounting. Note that this forces
+ mount of inconsistent filesystem, which can lead to
+ various problems.
data=journal All data are committed into the journal prior to being
written into the main file system.
@@ -95,6 +102,8 @@ debug Extra debugging information is s
errors=remount-ro(*) Remount the filesystem read-only on an error.
errors=continue Keep going on a filesystem error.
errors=panic Panic and halt the machine if an error occurs.
+ (Note that default is overriden by superblock
+ setting on most systems).
data_err=ignore(*) Just print an error message if an error occurs
in a file data buffer in ordered mode.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-04 22:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-03 12:38 document ext3 requirements Pavel Machek
2009-01-03 21:17 ` Martin MOKREJŠ
2009-01-03 22:06 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-03 22:17 ` Duane Griffin
2009-01-03 22:29 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-03 23:01 ` Martin MOKREJŠ
2009-01-03 23:38 ` Duane Griffin
2009-01-03 23:50 ` Martin MOKREJŠ
2009-01-03 23:58 ` Robert Hancock
2009-01-04 0:08 ` Martin MOKREJŠ
2009-01-04 21:49 ` Ingo Oeser
2009-01-04 0:00 ` Duane Griffin
2009-01-04 0:11 ` Martin MOKREJŠ
2009-01-04 0:41 ` Duane Griffin
2009-01-04 3:52 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-01-04 14:24 ` Duane Griffin
2009-01-04 18:40 ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-04 19:21 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2009-01-04 19:36 ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-04 19:51 ` Duane Griffin
2009-01-04 21:55 ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-04 22:06 ` Duane Griffin
2009-01-04 22:42 ` Bron Gondwana
2009-01-05 3:22 ` Rob Landley
2009-01-04 0:19 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-05 2:55 ` Rob Landley
2009-01-04 19:56 ` Rob Landley
2009-01-05 19:16 ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-06 19:20 ` Rob Landley
2009-01-06 10:08 ` Matthias Andree
2009-01-06 15:23 ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-03 23:12 ` Duane Griffin
2009-01-06 10:06 ` Matthias Andree
2009-01-04 2:32 ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-04 22:33 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-04 22:34 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2009-01-05 14:57 ` [patch] document ext3 a bit better Theodore Tso
2009-01-06 9:21 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-09 23:24 ` Jiri Kosina
2009-01-09 23:36 ` Randy Dunlap
2009-01-09 23:47 ` Jiri Kosina
2009-01-04 13:35 ` document ext3 requirements Alexander E. Patrakov
2009-01-04 13:53 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-01-04 18:21 ` Michael Tokarev
2009-01-04 18:38 ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-04 22:37 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-04 23:58 ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-05 11:43 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-07 11:59 ` Rob Landley
2009-01-04 20:10 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-04 19:49 ` Rob Landley
2009-01-04 22:06 ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-04 22:25 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-04 23:00 ` [patch] " Pavel Machek
2009-01-05 2:42 ` Rob Landley
2009-01-05 9:54 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-04 23:07 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-05 1:38 ` Rob Landley
2009-01-04 22:55 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-05 0:16 ` david
2009-01-05 9:38 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-05 1:50 ` Rob Landley
2009-01-05 3:20 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-01-05 9:45 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-05 11:28 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-05 19:15 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-01-05 20:19 ` Theodore Tso
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