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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Enable delalloc and mballoc by default.
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:15:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <471FB5F8.1090805@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071024210639.GC26078@webber.adilger.int>

Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Oct 24, 2007  12:22 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>>> @@ -1279,6 +1280,9 @@ clear_qf_name:
>>>  		case Opt_delalloc:
>>>  			set_opt (sbi->s_mount_opt, DELALLOC);
>>>  			break;
>> If delalloc, mballoc, extents are the new defaults, is there a reason to
>> keep them as options?  When would you need to specify -o extents, now,
>> for example?  (though my brain is fuzzy today, maybe I'm missing
>> something)  If this were not a filesystem ending in "dev" I could see
>> keeping it for compatibility with existing fstabs....
> 
> It is useful to be able to mount w/o extents/delalloc/mballoc for perf
> testing and functional testing of the block-mapped file path in ext4.
> Also, some users might want the ability to use features of ext4 w/o
> the incompatibility of extents.

Right, I understand the reason for noextents, nodelalloc, nomballoc.
Above, I ask what is the point of having the *defaults* (extents,
delalloc, mballoc) as mount options?

-Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-24 21:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-24 16:47 Patches for review Aneesh Kumar K.V
2007-10-24 16:47 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2007-10-24 16:47   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2007-10-24 16:47     ` [PATCH] ext4: Change the default behaviour on error Aneesh Kumar K.V
2007-10-24 16:47       ` [PATCH] ext4: Fix mballoc BUG when running compilebench Aneesh Kumar K.V
2007-10-24 16:47         ` [PATCH] ext4: Enable delalloc and mballoc by default Aneesh Kumar K.V
2007-10-24 16:47           ` [PATCH] ext4: Show mballoc and delalloc options Aneesh Kumar K.V
2007-10-24 16:47             ` [PATCH] ext4: Fix ext4_show_options to show the correct mount options Aneesh Kumar K.V
2007-10-24 17:55               ` Eric Sandeen
2007-10-24 18:18                 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2007-10-24 18:25                   ` Eric Sandeen
2007-10-24 17:24             ` [PATCH] ext4: Show mballoc and delalloc options Eric Sandeen
2007-10-24 17:22           ` [PATCH] ext4: Enable delalloc and mballoc by default Eric Sandeen
2007-10-24 17:30             ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2007-10-24 19:15             ` Mingming Cao
2007-10-24 21:06             ` Andreas Dilger
2007-10-24 21:15               ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2007-10-24 22:59                 ` Andreas Dilger

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