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| author | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2026-09-24 10:58:12 -0400 |
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| committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2026-10-08 11:21:30 -0400 |
| commit | 3e78d7b063230d39ffc42e80ee665b6c32a6adeb (patch) | |
| tree | d39b5cad1df500d5fe99c6eba2e87534d3f10324 | |
| parent | 4b1d04693e5ef388d8c6110bc93ee0d0681f9711 (diff) | |
ext4: mark data=journal as deprecated and will be removed in January 2028.
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ext4/super.c | 1 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst index 742a48e6fc0c..8b23b6ff3df1 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst @@ -172,7 +172,8 @@ When mounting an ext4 filesystem, the following option are accepted: data=journal All data are committed into the journal prior to being written into the main file system. Enabling this mode will disable delayed allocation - and O_DIRECT support. + and O_DIRECT support. This feature is deprecated and support + will be removed in January 2028. data=ordered (*) All data are forced directly out to the main file system prior to its @@ -418,7 +419,8 @@ There are 3 different data modes: 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. Enabling this mode will disable delayed allocation and O_DIRECT - support. + support. The data=journal feature is deprecated and support will be + removed in January 2028. /proc entries ============= diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c index bca0dc87d0b7..d636b89090a2 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -5057,6 +5057,7 @@ out: static int ext4_check_journal_data_mode(struct super_block *sb) { if (test_opt(sb, DATA_FLAGS) == EXT4_MOUNT_JOURNAL_DATA) { + printk(KERN_WARNING "EXT4-fs: The data=journal mount option is deprecated and support will be removed in January 2028\n"); printk_once(KERN_WARNING "EXT4-fs: Warning: mounting with " "data=journal disables delayed allocation, " "dioread_nolock, O_DIRECT and fast_commit support!\n"); |