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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst index 9443fcef1876..ac0c709ea9e7 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst @@ -212,16 +212,6 @@ When mounting an ext4 filesystem, the following option are accepted: that ext4's inode table readahead algorithm will pre-read into the buffer cache. The default value is 32 blocks. - nouser_xattr - Disables Extended User Attributes. See the attr(5) manual page for - more information about extended attributes. - - noacl - This option disables POSIX Access Control List support. If ACL support - is enabled in the kernel configuration (CONFIG_EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL), ACL - is enabled by default on mount. See the acl(5) manual page for more - information about acl. - bsddf (*) Make 'df' act like BSD. @@ -248,11 +238,10 @@ When mounting an ext4 filesystem, the following option are accepted: configured using tune2fs) data_err=ignore(*) - Just print an error message if an error occurs in a file data buffer in - ordered mode. + Just print an error message if an error occurs in a file data buffer. + data_err=abort - Abort the journal if an error occurs in a file data buffer in ordered - mode. + Abort the journal if an error occurs in a file data buffer. grpid | bsdgroups New objects have the group ID of their parent. @@ -392,9 +381,16 @@ When mounting an ext4 filesystem, the following option are accepted: dax Use direct access (no page cache). See - Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt. Note that this option is + Documentation/filesystems/dax.rst. Note that this option is incompatible with data=journal. + inlinecrypt + When possible, encrypt/decrypt the contents of encrypted files using the + blk-crypto framework rather than filesystem-layer encryption. This + allows the use of inline encryption hardware. The on-disk format is + unaffected. For more details, see + Documentation/block/inline-encryption.rst. + Data Mode ========= There are 3 different data modes: @@ -402,7 +398,7 @@ There are 3 different data modes: * writeback mode In data=writeback mode, ext4 does not journal data at all. This mode provides - a similar level of journaling as that of XFS, JFS, and ReiserFS in its default + a similar level of journaling as that of XFS and JFS in its default mode - metadata journaling. A crash+recovery can cause incorrect data to appear in files which were written shortly before the crash. This mode will typically provide the best ext4 performance. @@ -522,21 +518,21 @@ Files in /sys/fs/ext4/<devname>: Ioctls ====== -There is some Ext4 specific functionality which can be accessed by applications -through the system call interfaces. The list of all Ext4 specific ioctls are -shown in the table below. +Ext4 implements various ioctls which can be used by applications to access +ext4-specific functionality. An incomplete list of these ioctls is shown in the +table below. This list includes truly ext4-specific ioctls (``EXT4_IOC_*``) as +well as ioctls that may have been ext4-specific originally but are now supported +by some other filesystem(s) too (``FS_IOC_*``). -Table of Ext4 specific ioctls +Table of Ext4 ioctls - EXT4_IOC_GETFLAGS + FS_IOC_GETFLAGS Get additional attributes associated with inode. The ioctl argument is - an integer bitfield, with bit values described in ext4.h. This ioctl is - an alias for FS_IOC_GETFLAGS. + an integer bitfield, with bit values described in ext4.h. - EXT4_IOC_SETFLAGS + FS_IOC_SETFLAGS Set additional attributes associated with inode. The ioctl argument is - an integer bitfield, with bit values described in ext4.h. This ioctl is - an alias for FS_IOC_SETFLAGS. + an integer bitfield, with bit values described in ext4.h. EXT4_IOC_GETVERSION, EXT4_IOC_GETVERSION_OLD Get the inode i_generation number stored for each inode. The @@ -611,7 +607,7 @@ kernel source: <file:fs/ext4/> programs: http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ -useful links: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ext3-devel +useful links: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ext3-devel http://www.bullopensource.org/ext4/ http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Ext4 + https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Ext4 |