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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-11 18:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ 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
2009-08-12 20:37 ` Jan Kara
2009-08-11 19:09 ` Andi Kleen
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