From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Mason Subject: Re: reiserfs logging patches udpated Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 20:00:55 -0500 Message-ID: <1080176455.14737.140.camel@watt.suse.com> References: <1080149399.14737.77.camel@watt.suse.com> <20040324143516.3162cbfe.akpm@osdl.org> <1080168379.14743.124.camel@watt.suse.com> <200403250147.54246.bernd-schubert@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <200403250147.54246.bernd-schubert@web.de> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Bernd Schubert Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com, Andrew Morton On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 19:47, Bernd Schubert wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > It does, but the code has been in testing -suse and on the reiserfs > > list. This dooesn't mean data=ordered is perfect, but it's not quite > > day one either. I can switch the default back, but I'd rather have a > > trial by fire ;-) > > Oh please not, just have a look at german newsgroups, there are real flamewars > about the stability of reiserfs. Everytime someone has a disk problem and a > reiserfs partion is affected by it, then there are more than a dozen answers > that its the fault of reiserfs. PLEASE, don't prove them right. > The code just won't get tested if it isn't turned on. I think I've got all the major issues fixed, and I'm sending to -mm to try and prove that. When we're all happy with the stability of the patches, they can go to -linus. But there are just as many threads about reiserfs not having data=ordered support. It's an important feature that has been out of mainline for far too long. -chris