The nobh option was only supported for writeback mode, but given that all write paths (except mmapped writed) actually create buffer heads, it effectively was a no-op already. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext3/inode.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/ext3/inode.c 2010-06-07 09:56:07.519275527 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/fs/ext3/inode.c 2010-06-07 09:56:35.267022978 +0200 @@ -1625,10 +1625,7 @@ static int ext3_writeback_writepage(stru goto out_fail; } - if (test_opt(inode->i_sb, NOBH) && ext3_should_writeback_data(inode)) - ret = nobh_writepage(page, ext3_get_block, wbc); - else - ret = block_write_full_page(page, ext3_get_block, wbc); + ret = block_write_full_page(page, ext3_get_block, wbc); err = ext3_journal_stop(handle); if (!ret) @@ -1922,17 +1919,6 @@ static int ext3_block_truncate_page(hand length = blocksize - (offset & (blocksize - 1)); iblock = index << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - inode->i_sb->s_blocksize_bits); - /* - * For "nobh" option, we can only work if we don't need to - * read-in the page - otherwise we create buffers to do the IO. - */ - if (!page_has_buffers(page) && test_opt(inode->i_sb, NOBH) && - ext3_should_writeback_data(inode) && PageUptodate(page)) { - zero_user(page, offset, length); - set_page_dirty(page); - goto unlock; - } - if (!page_has_buffers(page)) create_empty_buffers(page, blocksize, 0); Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext3/super.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/ext3/super.c 2010-06-07 09:56:07.529254714 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/fs/ext3/super.c 2010-06-07 09:56:35.268023746 +0200 @@ -661,9 +661,6 @@ static int ext3_show_options(struct seq_ */ seq_puts(seq, ",barrier="); seq_puts(seq, test_opt(sb, BARRIER) ? "1" : "0"); - if (test_opt(sb, NOBH)) - seq_puts(seq, ",nobh"); - seq_printf(seq, ",data=%s", data_mode_string(test_opt(sb, DATA_FLAGS))); if (test_opt(sb, DATA_ERR_ABORT)) seq_puts(seq, ",data_err=abort"); @@ -1255,10 +1252,12 @@ set_qf_format: *n_blocks_count = option; break; case Opt_nobh: - set_opt(sbi->s_mount_opt, NOBH); + ext3_msg(sb, KERN_WARNING, + "warning: ignoring deprecated nobh option"); break; case Opt_bh: - clear_opt(sbi->s_mount_opt, NOBH); + ext3_msg(sb, KERN_WARNING, + "warning: ignoring deprecated bh option"); break; default: ext3_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, @@ -2001,14 +2000,6 @@ static int ext3_fill_super (struct super break; } - if (test_opt(sb, NOBH)) { - if (!(test_opt(sb, DATA_FLAGS) == EXT3_MOUNT_WRITEBACK_DATA)) { - ext3_msg(sb, KERN_WARNING, - "warning: ignoring nobh option - " - "it is supported only with writeback mode"); - clear_opt(sbi->s_mount_opt, NOBH); - } - } /* * The journal_load will have done any necessary log recovery, * so we can safely mount the rest of the filesystem now. Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/ext3_fs.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/ext3_fs.h 2010-06-07 09:56:07.540254365 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/ext3_fs.h 2010-06-07 09:56:35.270022978 +0200 @@ -400,7 +400,6 @@ struct ext3_inode { #define EXT3_MOUNT_POSIX_ACL 0x08000 /* POSIX Access Control Lists */ #define EXT3_MOUNT_RESERVATION 0x10000 /* Preallocation */ #define EXT3_MOUNT_BARRIER 0x20000 /* Use block barriers */ -#define EXT3_MOUNT_NOBH 0x40000 /* No bufferheads */ #define EXT3_MOUNT_QUOTA 0x80000 /* Some quota option set */ #define EXT3_MOUNT_USRQUOTA 0x100000 /* "old" user quota */ #define EXT3_MOUNT_GRPQUOTA 0x200000 /* "old" group quota */ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html