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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] dioread_nolock patch
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:52:45 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B50C78D.2000807@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1263583812-21355-1-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu>

Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> I've worked with Jiaying to ready this patch for submission.
> 
> It's currently a mount option for maximum safety, but after we do some
> benchmarking to make sure it doesn't degrade performance for buffered
> writes, we may want to make this the default.  Once really nice side
> effect of this patch is that it effectively gives us "guarded mode" by
> default, since the blocks are marked as uninitialized and only converted
> to be initialized when the I/O has completed for both buffered and
> direct I/O writes now.  This means that we could possibly change the
> default mode to be data=writeback if the extents feature is enabled,
> since data=ordered would only needed for safety when writing new
> old-style indirect blocks.

At least as far as that last bit goes, simply having the extents
feature is not sufficient; we allow both formats of files to exist
on a filesystem with the extents feature turned on.

As to the general idea I'll have to give it more thought. :)

-Eric


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-01-15 19:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-15 19:30 [PATCH v4 0/3] dioread_nolock patch Theodore Ts'o
2010-01-15 19:30 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] ext4: mechanical change on dio get_block code in prepare for it to be used by buffer write Theodore Ts'o
2010-01-17 14:36   ` Aneesh Kumar K. V
2010-01-17 16:19     ` Eric Sandeen
2010-01-17 16:42       ` Aneesh Kumar K. V
2010-01-18  3:57       ` tytso
2010-01-15 19:30 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] ext4: use ext4_get_block_write in " Theodore Ts'o
2010-01-16  2:17   ` tytso
2010-01-17 14:21   ` Aneesh Kumar K. V
2010-01-18  5:25     ` Jiaying Zhang
2010-01-15 19:30 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] ext4: Use direct_IO_no_locking in ext4 dio read Theodore Ts'o
2010-01-17 14:19   ` Aneesh Kumar K. V
2010-01-15 19:39 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] dioread_nolock patch Ric Wheeler
2010-01-15 19:52 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2010-01-15 20:15   ` tytso
2010-01-15 20:17     ` Eric Sandeen
2010-01-15 21:47       ` Michael Rubin
2010-01-22 20:47         ` Valerie Aurora
2010-02-20  0:56           ` Michael Rubin
2010-02-23  0:36             ` Andreas Dilger
2010-02-16 21:07 ` Darrick J. Wong
2010-02-17 19:34   ` Jiaying Zhang
2010-02-19 21:25     ` Darrick J. Wong

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