From: Bruce Guenter Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] fs: Remove ext3 filesystem driver Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 15:50:04 -0600 Message-ID: <20150728215004.GA15904@untroubled.org> References: <1436955987-7305-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.com> <1436955987-7305-3-git-send-email-jack@suse.com> <20150715095822.f994bc58.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <55A699CD.5090304@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="0F1p//8PRICkK4MW" To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from untroubled.org ([69.5.1.51]:44886 "HELO untroubled.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750791AbbG1V4s (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jul 2015 17:56:48 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <55A699CD.5090304@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --0F1p//8PRICkK4MW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 01:35:09PM -0400, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote: > On 2015-07-15 12:58, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Also, what's the status of ext4's data=3Djournal? It's the hardest ext3 > > mode for the rest of the kernel to support and I suspect hardly anyone > > uses it. > I use it, as do some other people I know, but only for stuff that pretty= =20 > much needs to be 100% guaranteed to be consistent after a power failure.= =20 > It is _very_ slow, but it does work correctly based on my recent=20 > experience. It is also a benefit for workloads that are heavy on sync writes to (relatively) small files, such as mail servers. At least, it used to be considerably faster than data=3Dordered the last time I benchmarked it. --=20 Bruce Guenter http://untroubled.org/ --0F1p//8PRICkK4MW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJVt/kMAAoJEFFRvcnBTTxn09UP/3DwtnlZG/XzA3XSKkG71KQS knvLya8EszhDWalHb9VASfx86Zigqmyt8bWfkwLTqg5YXj8Vldt9FW/jWu0d/LG6 RSIyktmusriL08qLuvFec2Q3HQtbFpW9rezhIndIdi/t1WhgM/LggHQoTsG/ooji rTITBj9m2C6YvebaFbWHOfEkkVMXWcqG4qqLwmH99U3X8zmk/uloxBF+wT/RBa1e KPVuS77nwlKoUBTshFG5kXF0hlOL1sPRVFMA5QzMbH+kauuC3TpX1tZmkL7Rl0/R cev7dA1g1EnmLwQgnV0YNVfBjzIwSZwvsFZou3nGDRERVOXiuRxT8gl/YHtqwLef T7tlDUHsRdOe8fTVUvNBK0lWiMeAz9Kez4eFMhEE6PYx8ieWmUyJeRl0RTvm0LIR jwJ3oJJGC37GILkupiuv62LpQiqUagoIfyxD6C7hg4jhhFb9xpiVzWSGfF3eehAU yhFCDQq/7jZDUWg3LLTPXwwg6K93d8KomiWnN/JKEAL+oOKgm9wm2EiN838V6qQB xDv6piegWi0cXLqXL/cj/zw90ZuoQrpnctUHxVJaFaWGX8wqCgpptaV0lYMq09JS ekxGtJ1KWXRsIC4lcK9mf1/IKWZWoHHt/JxbX7++kHtS+An0PkfjYEm8pjKKZWWu K5l+sHyn4XY2zj68xye9 =t5gY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0F1p//8PRICkK4MW--