From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>
Cc: "Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith@ieee.org>,
Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17@duke.edu>, David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>,
Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>,
Jon Collette <jon@etelos.com>,
linux-ide-arrays@lists.math.uh.edu, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org,
xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Advocacy] Re: 3ware 9650 tips
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:48:01 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070716174801.GM13826@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200707162040.00062.a1426z@gawab.com>
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 08:40:00PM +0300, Al Boldi wrote:
> XFS surely rocks, but it's missing one critical component: data=ordered
> And that's one component that's just too critical to overlook for an
> enterprise environment that is built on data-integrity over performance.
>
> So that's the secret why people still use ext3, and XFS' reliance on external
> hardware to ensure integrity is really misplaced.
>
> Now, maybe when we get the data=ordered onto the VFS level, then maybe XFS
> may become viable for the enterprise, and ext3 may cease to be KING.
Wow, thanks for bringing an advocacy thread onto linux-fsdevel. Just what
we wanted. Do you have any insight into how to "get the data=ordered
onto the VFS level"? Because to me, that sounds like pure nonsense.
--
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-16 17:48 UTC|newest]
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2007-07-16 17:40 ` [Advocacy] Re: 3ware 9650 tips Al Boldi
2007-07-16 17:48 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2007-07-16 18:28 ` [RFC] VFS: data=ordered (was: [Advocacy] Re: 3ware 9650 tips) Al Boldi
2007-07-16 19:02 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-07-16 18:38 ` [Advocacy] Re: 3ware 9650 tips Bryan J. Smith
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