interoperability with older kernels which only
store and expect 16-bit values.
-block_validity This options allows to enables/disables the in-kernel
+block_validity(*) These options enable or disable the in-kernel
noblock_validity facility for tracking filesystem metadata blocks
- within internal data structures. This allows multi-
- block allocator and other routines to quickly locate
- extents which might overlap with filesystem metadata
- blocks. This option is intended for debugging
- purposes and since it negatively affects the
- performance, it is off by default.
+ within internal data structures. This allows multi-
+ block allocator and other routines to notice
+ bugs or corrupted allocation bitmaps which cause
+ blocks to be allocated which overlap with
+ filesystem metadata blocks.
dioread_lock Controls whether or not ext4 should use the DIO read
dioread_nolock locking. If the dioread_nolock option is specified