Re: [PATCH 1/1] Allow ext4 to run without a journal.

[Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 09:35:55AM -0800, Frank Mayhar wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 15:54 -0800, Frank Mayhar wrote:
> > A few weeks ago I posted a patch for discussion that allowed ext4 to run
> > without a journal.  Since that time I've integrated the excellent
> > comments from Andreas and fixed several serious bugs.  We're currently
> > running with this patch and generating some performance numbers against
> > both ext2 (with backported reservations code) and ext4 with and without
> > a journal.  It just so happens that running without a journal is
> > slightly faster for most everything.
> 
> Has anyone had a chance to take a look at this?  Andreas?  Ted?  Anyone?

For some reason it didn't show up in my mailbox; maybe an errant SPAM
checker grabbed it?  (For some reason Herbert Xu's mail server
recently blacklisted my mail server, so he can't get any e-mails from
me, whether it's a reply to LKML or an invite to the kernel summit.
More recently Baracuda Networks, which handles mit.edu's spam
filtering, blacklisted the mail server for the vendor-sec mailing
list.  Go figure.)  

Fortunately your patch did show up in patchwork:

	http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linux-ext4/

I've been travelling, so I haven't had a chance to look at it,
although I did note that it had showed up over the weekend when I was
going over the patch queue and reconciling it with Patchwork, and
wondered why I hadn't seen earlier...

I will try to get it shortly.

Regards,

						- Ted