Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 00:23:37 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: pbadari@us.ibm.com, sct@redhat.com, jack@suse.cz,
       linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] ext3 writepage() journal avoidance
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Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> 
> > I'm not sure that PageMappedToDisk() gets set in all the right places
> > though - it's mainly for the `nobh' handling and block_prepare_write()
> > would need to be taught to set it.  I guess that'd be a net win, even if
> > only ext3 uses it..
> 
> btw is nobh mature enough yet to become the default, or to just go away
> entirely as option ?

I don't know how much usage it's had, sorry.  It's only allowed in
data=writeback mode and not many people seem to use even that.

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