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@@ -134,9 +134,15 @@ ro Mount filesystem read only. Note that ext4 will
mount options "ro,noload" can be used to prevent
writes to the filesystem.
+journal_checksum Enable checksumming of the journal transactions.
+ This will allow the recovery code in e2fsck and the
+ kernel to detect corruption in the kernel. It is a
+ compatible change and will be ignored by older kernels.
+
journal_async_commit Commit block can be written to disk without waiting
for descriptor blocks. If enabled older kernels cannot
- mount the device.
+ mount the device. This will enable 'journal_checksum'
+ internally.
journal=update Update the ext4 file system's journal to the current
format.