From: Chris Mason Subject: Re: What happened to data=guarded? (was: ext3: Update Kconfig description of EXT3_DEFAULTS_TO_ORDERED) Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:37:21 -0400 Message-ID: <20090811133721.GD29224@think> References: <1249934623-15939-1-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> <200908111535.37927.elendil@planet.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" , jack@suse.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Frans Pop Return-path: Received: from rcsinet12.oracle.com ([148.87.113.124]:18141 "EHLO rgminet12.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753138AbZHKNha (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:37:30 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200908111535.37927.elendil@planet.nl> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 03:35:36PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > The old description for this configuration option was perhaps not > > completely balanced in terms of describing the tradeoffs of using a > > default of data=writeback vs. data=ordered. > > Somewhat unrelated, but what happened to the data=guarded patches Chris > Mason proposed back in April? I missed 2.6.31 but plan on sending for 2.6.32. I promised to send along a forward port of the patches a while back, but I finally have one in testing here. It should go out shortly. -chris