On 7/11/11 1:25 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > From: Chris Mason <mason@xxxxxxxx> > > This patch turns on barriers by default for ext3. mount -o barrier=0 > will turn them off. > > Acked-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx> > > Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext3/super.c > =================================================================== > --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/ext3/super.c 2011-06-30 21:19:37.389544975 +0200 > +++ linux-2.6/fs/ext3/super.c 2011-07-02 13:56:51.877784292 +0200 > @@ -1718,6 +1718,8 @@ static int ext3_fill_super (struct super > sbi->s_resuid = le16_to_cpu(es->s_def_resuid); > sbi->s_resgid = le16_to_cpu(es->s_def_resgid); > > + /* enable barriers by default */ > + set_opt(sbi->s_mount_opt, BARRIER); > set_opt(sbi->s_mount_opt, RESERVATION); > > if (!parse_options ((char *) data, sb, &journal_inum, &journal_devnum, Thank you, I hope it will get upstream THIS time ;) As Jan said, despite uptream rejection last time, RHEL6 and SuSE have made this change anyway, because it's the Right Thing To Do. Acked-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> -Eric -- 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