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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-04-07 12:05:21 +0200 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-04-07 12:05:25 +0200 |
commit | 6c009ecef8cca28c7c09eb16d0802e37915a76e1 (patch) | |
tree | 11c773f780186fdb9fbc9c80a73fb7c8426b1fba /fs/ext3/Kconfig | |
parent | 98c2aaf8be5baf7193be37fb28bce8e7327158bc (diff) | |
parent | d508afb437daee7cf07da085b635c44a4ebf9b38 (diff) |
Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core
Merge reason: need the upstream facility added by:
7f1e2ca: hrtimer: fix rq->lock inversion (again)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext3/Kconfig')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/ext3/Kconfig | 19 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext3/Kconfig b/fs/ext3/Kconfig index 8e0cfe44b0f..fb3c1a21b13 100644 --- a/fs/ext3/Kconfig +++ b/fs/ext3/Kconfig @@ -28,6 +28,25 @@ config EXT3_FS To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the module will be called ext3. +config EXT3_DEFAULTS_TO_ORDERED + bool "Default to 'data=ordered' in ext3 (legacy option)" + depends on EXT3_FS + help + If a filesystem does not explicitly specify a data ordering + mode, and the journal capability allowed it, ext3 used to + historically default to 'data=ordered'. + + That was a rather unfortunate choice, because it leads to all + kinds of latency problems, and the 'data=writeback' mode is more + appropriate these days. + + You should probably always answer 'n' here, and if you really + want to use 'data=ordered' mode, set it in the filesystem itself + with 'tune2fs -o journal_data_ordered'. + + But if you really want to enable the legacy default, you can do + so by answering 'y' to this question. + config EXT3_FS_XATTR bool "Ext3 extended attributes" depends on EXT3_FS |