From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
To: Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com>
Cc: Keith Chew <keith.chew@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Chris Mason <clmason@fusionio.com>,
"linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: data=guarded mode in ext3
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 10:59:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130107155925.GC30947@shiny> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50EAEDF0.4010609@redhat.com>
On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 08:46:56AM -0700, Ric Wheeler wrote:
> On 12/03/2012 09:34 PM, Keith Chew wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Just wanted to check if the "'Data=guarded' mode in Ext3" work started
> > by Chris Mason, is still being considered for merging to the mainline
> > kernel? Or has that effort stopped?
> >
> > Regards
> > Keith
> >
>
> Hi Keith,
>
> I think that Chris is spending pretty much all of his time on btrfs these days.
> I believe this work is pretty much abandoned at this point...
>
> What are you looking for specifically from this?
Ric has it right, the change was big enough that I didn't think it was
worth the risk of changing how ext3 works. Most people are going to
want ext4 anyway for a lot of reasons, so it made sense to focus bigger
changes in the ext4 code base.
-chris
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2013-01-07 15:46 ` data=guarded mode in ext3 Ric Wheeler
2013-01-07 15:59 ` Chris Mason [this message]
2013-01-07 20:56 ` Keith Chew
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