ext4: update journal documentation
authorLeah Rumancik <leah.rumancik@gmail.com>
Tue, 18 May 2021 15:13:27 +0000 (15:13 +0000)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Wed, 23 Jun 2021 01:34:17 +0000 (21:34 -0400)
commitfd7b23be92059f14537cb9cac0f0894c3a9b1284
tree10a73dd4c37a108b238bc3a3a3e3fb93449c1460
parent351a0a3fbc3584a00036f05cfdb0cd3eb1dca92a
ext4: update journal documentation

Add a section about journal checkpointing, including information about
the ioctl EXT4_IOC_CHECKPOINT which can be used to trigger a journal
checkpoint from userspace.

Also, update the journal allocation information to reflect that up to
10240000 blocks are used for the journal and that the journal is not
necessarily contiguous.

Signed-off-by: Leah Rumancik <leah.rumancik@gmail.com>
Changes in v5:
- clarify behavior of DRY_RUN flag
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210518151327.130198-3-leah.rumancik@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Documentation/filesystems/ext4/journal.rst