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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>,
	Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
	jack@suse.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What happened to data=guarded?
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:57:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090811185703.GQ1756@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878whqgyid.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 05:29:14PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > 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 :/

What sort of files were you losing?  I don't know if we can improve
the implied flush hueristics, but we should at least try to see if we
do something about it.

						- Ted

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-11 18:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-10 20:03 [PATCH, RFC] ext3: Update Kconfig description of EXT3_DEFAULTS_TO_ORDERED Theodore Ts'o
2009-08-10 20:28 ` Jan Kara
2009-08-10 20:55 ` Ric Wheeler
2009-08-11  3:49 ` Al Boldi
2009-08-11  9:33   ` Jan Kara
2009-08-11 11:41     ` Al Boldi
2009-08-11 13:35 ` What happened to data=guarded? (was: ext3: Update Kconfig description of EXT3_DEFAULTS_TO_ORDERED) Frans Pop
2009-08-11 13:37   ` Chris Mason
2009-08-11 14:54     ` What happened to data=guarded? Frans Pop
2009-08-11 15:29       ` Andi Kleen
2009-08-11 15:34         ` Jan Kara
2009-08-11 18:04           ` Eric Sandeen
2009-08-11 18:57         ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2009-08-10 16:42           ` Pavel Machek
2009-08-10 16:42             ` Pavel Machek
2009-08-11 22:00             ` Bernd Eckenfels
2009-08-12 20:37             ` Jan Kara
2009-08-11 19:09           ` Andi Kleen
2009-08-11 19:09             ` Andi Kleen

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