Re: [RFC] VFS: data=ordered (was: [Advocacy] Re: 3ware 9650 tips)

Matthew Wilcox
2007-07-16T19:02:58Z

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 09:28:08PM +0300, Al Boldi wrote:
> Well, conceptually it sounds like a piece of cake, technically your guess is
> as good as mine. IIRC, akpm once mentioned something like this.

How much have you looked at the VFS? There's nothing journalling-related
in the VFS right now. ext3 and XFS share no common journalling code,
nor do I think that would be possible, due to the very different concepts
they have of journalling.

Here's a good hint:

$ find fs -type f |xargs grep -l journal_start
fs/ext3/acl.c
fs/ext3/inode.c
fs/ext3/ioctl.c
fs/ext3/namei.c
fs/ext3/resize.c
fs/ext3/super.c
fs/ext3/xattr.c
fs/ext4/acl.c
fs/ext4/extents.c
fs/ext4/inode.c
fs/ext4/ioctl.c
fs/ext4/namei.c
fs/ext4/resize.c
fs/ext4/super.c
fs/ext4/xattr.c
fs/jbd/journal.c
fs/jbd/transaction.c
fs/jbd2/journal.c
fs/jbd2/transaction.c
fs/ocfs2/journal.c
fs/ocfs2/super.c

JBD and JBD2 provide a journalling implementation that ext3, ext4 and
ocfs2 use. Note that XFS doesn't, it has its own journalling code.

If you want XFS to support data=ordered, talk to the XFS folks. Or
start picking through XFS yourself, of course -- you do have the source
code.

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