From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [patch 0/4] Journal guided resync and support Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:36:33 +0200 Message-ID: <874oqitywe.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> References: <20091001223929.120106893@sun.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andreas Dilger To: scjody@sun.com Return-path: Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:53462 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752254AbZJBAgd (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Oct 2009 20:36:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20091001223929.120106893@sun.com> (scjody@sun.com's message of "Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:39:29 -0400") Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: scjody@sun.com writes: > > The changes consist of patches to ext3, jbd, MD, and the raid456 personality. > These patches are currently against the RHEL 5 kernel 2.6.18-128.1.6. Porting > to ext4/jbd2 and a more modern kernel is a TODO item. The basic idea seems very cool, but the code would probably need porting to mainline before anything could be done with it on this list. Also most likely you would need a ext4 version. (my experience is that the ext3 maintainers don't accept new features anymore) -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.