From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Mason Subject: Re: data=guarded mode in ext3 Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 10:59:25 -0500 Message-ID: <20130107155925.GC30947@shiny> References: <50EAEDF0.4010609@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: Keith Chew , linux-kernel , Chris Mason , "linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" To: Ric Wheeler Return-path: Received: from mx1.fusionio.com ([66.114.96.30]:33140 "EHLO mx1.fusionio.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753508Ab3AGP7a (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jan 2013 10:59:30 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <50EAEDF0.4010609@redhat.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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