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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/atomic_writes.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/atomic_writes.rst index f65767df3620..aeb47ace738d 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/atomic_writes.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/atomic_writes.rst @@ -148,10 +148,10 @@ reserved during: only required to handle a split extent across leaf blocks. How to ------- +~~~~~~ Creating Filesystems with Atomic Write Support -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ First check the atomic write units supported by block device. See :ref:`atomic_write_bdev_support` for more details. @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ Where ``-b`` specifies the block size, ``-C`` specifies the cluster size in byte and ``-O bigalloc`` enables the bigalloc feature. Application Interface -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Applications can use the ``pwritev2()`` system call with the ``RWF_ATOMIC`` flag to perform atomic writes: @@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ writes are supported. .. _atomic_write_bdev_support: Hardware Support ----------------- +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The underlying storage device must support atomic write operations. Modern NVMe and SCSI devices often provide this capability. @@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ Nonzero values for these attributes indicate that the device supports atomic writes. See Also --------- +~~~~~~~~ * :doc:`bigalloc` - Documentation on the bigalloc feature * :doc:`allocators` - Documentation on block allocation in ext4 |