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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] (RESEND) ext3[34] barrier changes
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 00:35:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080520233521.GK27853@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4830E60A.2010809@redhat.com>

Eric Sandeen wrote:
> I'll propose that very close to 0% of users will ever report "having
> barriers off seems to have corrupted my disk on power loss!" even if
> that's exactly what happened.  And it'd be very tricky to identify in a
> post-mortem.

Ooh.

Might it be possible for fsck to identify certain problems as likely
caused by power loss in misordered writes?

If metadata sectors had an update generation number, to be compared
with journal entries, perhaps that would be more feasible.

-- Jamie

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-20 23:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-16 19:02 [PATCH 0/4] (RESEND) ext3[34] barrier changes Eric Sandeen
2008-05-16 19:05 ` [PATCH 1/4] ext3: enable barriers by default Eric Sandeen
2008-05-19  8:58   ` Pavel Machek
2008-05-16 19:07 ` [PATCH 2/4] ext3: call blkdev_issue_flush on fsync Eric Sandeen
2008-05-16 22:15   ` Jamie Lokier
2008-05-16 19:08 ` [PATCH 3/4] ext4: enable barriers by default Eric Sandeen
2008-05-16 19:09 ` [PATCH 4/4] ext4: call blkdev_issue_flush on fsync Eric Sandeen
2008-05-20  2:34   ` Theodore Tso
2008-05-20 15:43     ` Jamie Lokier
2008-05-20 15:52       ` Eric Sandeen
2008-05-20 20:14         ` Jens Axboe
2008-05-20 19:54       ` Jens Axboe
2008-05-20 22:02         ` Jamie Lokier
2008-05-21  7:30           ` Jens Axboe
2008-05-16 20:05 ` [PATCH 0/4] (RESEND) ext3[34] barrier changes Andrew Morton
2008-05-16 20:53   ` Eric Sandeen
2008-05-16 20:58     ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-16 21:45       ` Jamie Lokier
2008-05-16 22:03         ` Eric Sandeen
2008-05-16 22:09           ` Jamie Lokier
2008-05-16 22:03     ` Jamie Lokier
2008-05-16 22:21       ` Eric Sandeen
2008-05-16 22:53         ` Jamie Lokier
2008-05-17  0:20           ` Theodore Tso
2008-05-17  0:35             ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-17 13:43               ` Theodore Tso
2008-05-17 17:59                 ` Andreas Dilger
2008-05-17 20:44                 ` Theodore Tso
2008-05-20 14:45                   ` Jamie Lokier
2008-05-18  0:48               ` Chris Mason
2008-05-18  1:36                 ` Theodore Tso
2008-05-18 14:49                   ` Ric Wheeler
2008-05-20 14:42                     ` Jamie Lokier
2008-05-20 23:48                     ` Jamie Lokier
     [not found]                   ` <4830420D.4080608__28835.4277647615$1211137279$gmane$org@gmail.com>
2008-05-18 19:59                     ` Andi Kleen
2008-05-18 16:07                       ` Ric Wheeler
2008-05-20 23:44                 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-05-18 20:03         ` Andi Kleen
2008-05-19  0:43           ` Theodore Tso
2008-05-19  2:29             ` Eric Sandeen
2008-05-19  4:11               ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-19 17:16                 ` Chris Mason
2008-05-19 18:39                   ` Chris Mason
2008-05-19 22:39                     ` Jan Kara
2008-05-20  0:29                       ` Chris Mason
2008-05-20  3:29                         ` Timothy Shimmin
2008-05-20 12:04                           ` Chris Mason
2008-05-20  8:25                     ` Jens Axboe
2008-05-20 12:17                       ` Chris Mason
2008-05-21 11:22                     ` Pavel Machek
2008-05-21 12:32                       ` Theodore Tso
2008-05-21 18:03                       ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-21 18:15                         ` Eric Sandeen
2008-05-21 19:43                           ` Jamie Lokier
2008-05-21 18:29                         ` Theodore Tso
2008-05-21 18:49                           ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-21 19:42                             ` Jamie Lokier
2008-05-21 19:36                           ` Jamie Lokier
2008-05-21 19:40                             ` Chris Mason
2008-05-21 19:54                         ` Jamie Lokier
2008-05-20 14:58                   ` Jamie Lokier
2008-05-21 22:30                   ` Daniel Phillips
2008-05-20 23:35               ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2008-05-19  0:28       ` Theodore Tso
2008-05-20 15:13         ` Jamie Lokier
2008-05-21 20:25           ` Greg Smith
2008-05-16 22:30   ` Jamie Lokier
2008-05-18 19:54   ` Andi Kleen
2008-05-19 13:26     ` Chris Mason
2008-05-19 14:46       ` Theodore Tso
2008-05-20  2:51         ` [PATCH, RFC] ext4: Fix use of write barrier in commit logic Theodore Tso
2008-05-20 15:23           ` Jamie Lokier
2008-05-23 18:33         ` [PATCH 0/4] (RESEND) ext3[34] barrier changes Ric Wheeler
2008-05-20 15:36       ` Jamie Lokier
2008-05-20 16:02         ` Chris Mason
2008-05-20 16:27           ` Jamie Lokier
2008-05-20 17:08             ` Chris Mason
2008-05-20 22:26               ` Jamie Lokier
2008-05-19  9:04   ` Pavel Machek
2008-05-29 13:36   ` Eric Sandeen

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