diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 7c4f5a96113e..7ac46b1b1c94 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: b85fd6bdc99da917f5ae0f90f0c2d86ef9a766aa
+refs/heads/master: 00eacd66cd8ab5fff9df49aa3f261ad43d495434
diff --git a/trunk/fs/ext3/super.c b/trunk/fs/ext3/super.c
index aad153ef6b78..b57ea2f91269 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/ext3/super.c
+++ b/trunk/fs/ext3/super.c
@@ -1718,6 +1718,8 @@ static int ext3_fill_super (struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
 	sbi->s_resuid = le16_to_cpu(es->s_def_resuid);
 	sbi->s_resgid = le16_to_cpu(es->s_def_resgid);
 
+	/* enable barriers by default */
+	set_opt(sbi->s_mount_opt, BARRIER);
 	set_opt(sbi->s_mount_opt, RESERVATION);
 
 	if (!parse_options ((char *) data, sb, &journal_inum, &journal_devnum,