From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: What happened to data=guarded? Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:29:14 +0200 Message-ID: <878whqgyid.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> References: <1249934623-15939-1-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> <200908111535.37927.elendil@planet.nl> <20090811133721.GD29224@think> <200908111654.38217.elendil@planet.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Chris Mason , "Theodore Ts'o" , jack@suse.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Frans Pop Return-path: Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:59299 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751822AbZHKP3O (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:29:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200908111654.38217.elendil@planet.nl> (Frans Pop's message of "Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:54:36 +0200") Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Frans Pop writes: > 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. Same here. data=writeback already cost me a few files after crashes here :/ -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.