mounted filesystem without journal. Opts: (null) while mounting ext4 fs

Question

I am using Beaglebone black with NFS,
I have formatted internal eMMC with ext4 filesystem,

when i mount the file system using following command message popups telling filesystem is mounted without journal, so how can i mount the filesystem with journal,

# mount -t ext4 /dev/mmcblk0p2 /media/emmcrfs/
[10639.836647] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): mounted filesystem without journal. Opts: (null)

Another thing i read is ram journal is better for embedded system, is it so ?
How can I set ram journal option ?

Do i have to use tune2fs utility ?

Answer 1

well with some experiment i found the answer,

I had used mke2fs /dev/mmcblk0p2 command to format the partition. And after that if i mount /dev/mmcblk0p2 on the /media/emmcrfs mount spits message that it is mounting file system without journal.

when i used mkfs.ext4 /dev/mmcblk0p2 command to format the partition and then mount /dev/mmcblk0p2 i see mount giving message that it is mounting file system with journal. For exact message see below command

# mount -t ext4 /dev/mmcblk0p2 /media/emmcrfs/
[ 3172.107869] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)

So when i googled it i found that mke2fs utility refers /etc/mke2fs.conf file for different options. if mke2fs is not given any argument it takes parameters from [defaults] from the /etc/mke2fs.conf and these [defaults] parameters doesn't have journal option.

When i use command mkfs.ext4 it internally calls mke2fs with ext4 as parameter and because of which mke2fs refers parameters for [ext4] in the /etc/mke2fs.conf. In my case [ext4] contains the journaling option so it creates journal.

Hope it helps someone having same question as me :)