From: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Subject: Re: What happened to data=guarded?
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:54:36 +0200
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On Tuesday 11 August 2009, Chris Mason wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 03:35:36PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> > 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.

Good to hear. I've so far stayed with data=ordered as I think I'd prefer 
data=guarded over data=writeback. I'll certainly give it a try when it's 
available.

Thanks,
FJP