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@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@
 Ext3 Filesystem
 ===============
 
-ext3 was originally released in September 1999. Written by Stephen Tweedie
-for 2.2 branch, and ported to 2.4 kernels by Peter Braam, Andreas Dilger, 
+Ext3 was originally released in September 1999. Written by Stephen Tweedie
+for the 2.2 branch, and ported to 2.4 kernels by Peter Braam, Andreas Dilger,
 Andrew Morton, Alexander Viro, Ted Ts'o and Stephen Tweedie.
 
-ext3 is ext2 filesystem enhanced with journalling capabilities. 
+Ext3 is the ext2 filesystem enhanced with journalling capabilities.
 
 Options
 =======
@@ -14,76 +14,81 @@ Options
 When mounting an ext3 filesystem, the following option are accepted:
 (*) == default
 
-jounal=update      Update the ext3 file system's journal to the 
-         current format.
+journal=update      Update the ext3 file system's journal to the current
+         format.
 
-journal=inum      When a journal already exists, this option is 
-         ignored. Otherwise, it specifies the number of
-         the inode which will represent the ext3 file
-         system's journal file.
+journal=inum      When a journal already exists, this option is ignored.
+         Otherwise, it specifies the number of the inode which
+         will represent the ext3 file system's journal file.
+
+journal_dev=devnum   When the external journal device's major/minor numbers
+         have changed, this option allows the user to specify
+         the new journal location.  The journal device is
+         identified through its new major/minor numbers encoded
+         in devnum.
 
 noload         Don't load the journal on mounting.
 
-data=journal      All data are committed into the journal prior
-         to being written into the main file system.
+data=journal      All data are committed into the journal prior to being
+         written into the main file system.
 
 data=ordered   (*)   All data are forced directly out to the main file
-         system prior to its metadata being committed to
-         the journal.
+         system prior to its metadata being committed to the
+         journal.
 
-data=writeback      Data ordering is not preserved, data may be
-         written into the main file system after its
-         metadata has been committed to the journal.
+data=writeback      Data ordering is not preserved, data may be written
+         into the main file system after its metadata has been
+         committed to the journal.
 
 commit=nrsec   (*)   Ext3 can be told to sync all its data and metadata
          every 'nrsec' seconds. The default value is 5 seconds.
-         This means that if you lose your power, you will lose,
-         as much, the latest 5 seconds of work (your filesystem
-         will not be damaged though, thanks to journaling). This
-         default value (or any low value) will hurt performance,
-         but it's good for data-safety. Setting it to 0 will
-         have the same effect than leaving the default 5 sec.
+         This means that if you lose your power, you will lose
+         as much as the latest 5 seconds of work (your
+         filesystem will not be damaged though, thanks to the
+         journaling).  This default value (or any low value)
+         will hurt performance, but it's good for data-safety.
+         Setting it to 0 will have the same effect as leaving
+         it at the default (5 seconds).
          Setting it to very large values will improve
          performance.
 
-barrier=1      This enables/disables barriers. barrier=0 disables it,
-         barrier=1 enables it.
+barrier=1      This enables/disables barriers.  barrier=0 disables
+         it, barrier=1 enables it.
 
-orlov      (*)   This enables the new Orlov block allocator. It's enabled
-         by default.
+orlov      (*)   This enables the new Orlov block allocator. It is
+         enabled by default.
 
-oldalloc      This disables the Orlov block allocator and enables the
-         old block allocator. Orlov should have better performance,
-         we'd like to get some feedback if it's the contrary for
-         you.
-
-user_xattr      Enables Extended User Attributes. Additionally, you need
-         to have extended attribute support enabled in the kernel
-         configuration (CONFIG_EXT3_FS_XATTR). See the attr(5)
-         manual page and http://acl.bestbits.at to learn more
-         about extended attributes.
+oldalloc      This disables the Orlov block allocator and enables
+         the old block allocator.  Orlov should have better
+         performance - we'd like to get some feedback if it's
+         the contrary for you.
+
+user_xattr      Enables Extended User Attributes.  Additionally, you
+         need to have extended attribute support enabled in the
+         kernel configuration (CONFIG_EXT3_FS_XATTR).  See the
+         attr(5) manual page and http://acl.bestbits.at/ to
+         learn more about extended attributes.
 
 nouser_xattr      Disables Extended User Attributes.
 
-acl         Enables POSIX Access Control Lists support.  Additionally,
-         you need to have ACL support enabled in the kernel
-         configuration (CONFIG_EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL). See the acl(5)
-         manual page and http://acl.bestbits.at for more
-         information.
+acl         Enables POSIX Access Control Lists support.
+         Additionally, you need to have ACL support enabled in
+         the kernel configuration (CONFIG_EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL).
+         See the acl(5) manual page and http://acl.bestbits.at/
+         for more information.
 
-noacl         This option disables POSIX Access Control List support.
+noacl         This option disables POSIX Access Control List
+         support.
 
 reservation
 
 noreservation
 
-resize=
-
 bsddf       (*)   Make 'df' act like BSD.
 minixdf         Make 'df' act like Minix.
 
 check=none      Don't do extra checking of bitmaps on mount.
-nocheck      
+nocheck
 
 debug         Extra debugging information is sent to syslog.
 
@@ -92,7 +97,7 @@ errors=continue      Keep going on a filesys
 errors=panic      Panic and halt the machine if an error occurs.
 
 grpid         Give objects the same group ID as their creator.
-bsdgroups      
+bsdgroups
 
 nogrpid      (*)   New objects have the group ID of their creator.
 sysvgroups
@@ -103,81 +108,83 @@ resuid=n      The user ID which may use the 
 
 sb=n         Use alternate superblock at this location.
 
-quota         Quota options are currently silently ignored.
-noquota         (see fs/ext3/super.c, line 594)
+quota
+noquota
 grpquota
 usrquota
 
 
 Specification
 =============
-ext3 shares all disk implementation with ext2 filesystem, and add
-transactions capabilities to ext2.  Journaling is done by the
-Journaling block device layer.
+Ext3 shares all disk implementation with the ext2 filesystem, and adds
+transactions capabilities to ext2.  Journaling is done by the Journaling Block
+Device layer.
 
 Journaling Block Device layer
 -----------------------------
-The Journaling Block Device layer (JBD) isn't ext3 specific.  It was
-design to add journaling capabilities on a block device.  The ext3
-filesystem code will inform the JBD of modifications it is performing
-(Call a transaction).  the journal support the transactions start and
-stop, and in case of crash, the journal can replayed the transactions
-to put the partition on a consistent state fastly.
+The Journaling Block Device layer (JBD) isn't ext3 specific.  It was design to
+add journaling capabilities on a block device.  The ext3 filesystem code will
+inform the JBD of modifications it is performing (called a transaction).  The
+journal supports the transactions start and stop, and in case of crash, the
+journal can replayed the transactions to put the partition back in a
+consistent state fast.
 
-handles represent a single atomic update to a filesystem.  JBD can
-handle external journal on a block device.
+Handles represent a single atomic update to a filesystem.  JBD can handle an
+external journal on a block device.
 
 Data Mode
 ---------
-There's 3 different data modes:
+There are 3 different data modes:
 
 * writeback mode
-In data=writeback mode, ext3 does not journal data at all.  This mode
-provides a similar level of journaling as XFS, JFS, and ReiserFS 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 ext3 performance.
+In data=writeback mode, ext3 does not journal data at all.  This mode provides
+a similar level of journaling as that of XFS, JFS, and ReiserFS 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 ext3 performance.
 
 * ordered mode
-In data=ordered mode, ext3 only officially journals metadata, but it
-logically groups metadata and data blocks into a single unit called a
-transaction.  When it's time to write the new metadata out to disk, the
-associated data blocks are written first.  In general, this mode
-perform slightly slower than writeback but significantly faster than
-journal mode.
+In data=ordered mode, ext3 only officially journals metadata, but it logically
+groups metadata and data blocks into a single unit called a transaction.  When
+it's time to write the new metadata out to disk, the associated data blocks
+are written first.  In general, this mode performs slightly slower than
+writeback but significantly faster than journal mode.
 
 * journal mode
-data=journal mode provides full data and metadata journaling.  All new
-data is written to the journal first, and then to its final location. 
-In the event of a crash, the journal can be replayed, bringing both
-data and metadata into a consistent state.  This mode is the slowest
-except when data needs to be read from and written to disk at the same
-time where it outperform all others mode.
+data=journal mode provides full data and metadata journaling.  All new data is
+written to the journal first, and then to its final location.
+In the event of a crash, the journal can be replayed, bringing both data and
+metadata into a consistent state.  This mode is the slowest except when data
+needs to be read from and written to disk at the same time where it
+outperforms all others modes.
 
 Compatibility
 -------------
 
 Ext2 partitions can be easily convert to ext3, with `tune2fs -j <dev>`.
-Ext3 is fully compatible with Ext2.  Ext3 partitions can easily be
-mounted as Ext2.
+Ext3 is fully compatible with Ext2.  Ext3 partitions can easily be mounted as
+Ext2.
+
 
 External Tools
 ==============
-see manual pages to know more.
+See manual pages to learn more.
+
+tune2fs:    create a ext3 journal on a ext2 partition with the -j flag.
+mke2fs:    create a ext3 partition with the -j flag.
+debugfs:    ext2 and ext3 file system debugger.
+ext2online:   online (mounted) ext2 and ext3 filesystem resizer
 
-tune2fs:    create a ext3 journal on a ext2 partition with the -j flags
-mke2fs:    create a ext3 partition with the -j flags
-debugfs:    ext2 and ext3 file system debugger
 
 References
 ==========
 
-kernel source:   file:/usr/src/linux/fs/ext3
-      file:/usr/src/linux/fs/jbd
+kernel source:   <file:fs/ext3/>
+      <file:fs/jbd/>
 
-programs:    http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net
+programs:    http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/
+      http://ext2resize.sourceforge.net
 
-useful link:
-      http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/ext3/ext3-usage.html
+useful links:   http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/ext3/ext3-usage.html
       http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fs7/
       http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fs8/


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