Re: [Advocacy] Re: 3ware 9650 tips

Matthew Wilcox
2007-07-16T18:19:38Z

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.

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operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."