[PATCH] ext3: external journal device as a mount option
authorJohann Lombardi <johann.lombardi@bull.net>
Sun, 8 Jan 2006 09:03:20 +0000 (01:03 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Mon, 9 Jan 2006 04:13:56 +0000 (20:13 -0800)
commit71b9625744b7d4a6a2416389a5ba464bdf11f07f
tree0926e8274cfa5030fccfb0955bd0db45e60e0e7c
parentbf066c7db775a04bd761f8ea206f5522d0cf40ff
[PATCH] ext3: external journal device as a mount option

The patch below adds a new mount option to allow the external journal
device to be specified.

The syntax is as follows:
# mount -t ext3 -o journal_dev=0x0820 ...
where 0x0820 means major=8 and minor=32.

Signed-off-by: Johann Lombardi <johann.lombardi@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt
fs/ext3/super.c