diff -ruN linux-3.9-rc3-orig/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt linux-3.9-rc3/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt --- linux-3.9-rc3-orig/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt 2013-03-17 23:59:32.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-3.9-rc3/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt 2013-03-21 18:27:19.246017488 +0100 @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ note that ext4 enables write barriers by default, while ext3 does not enable write barriers by default. So it is useful to use explicitly specify whether barriers are enabled or not when via the - '-o barriers=[0|1]' mount option for both ext3 and ext4 filesystems + '-o barrier=[0|1]' mount option for both ext3 and ext4 filesystems for a fair comparison. When tuning ext3 for best benchmark numbers, it is often worthwhile to try changing the data journaling mode; '-o data=writeback' can be faster for some workloads. (Note however that