From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965313AbYEBVfM (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2008 17:35:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932789AbYEBVey (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2008 17:34:54 -0400 Received: from lazybastard.de ([212.112.238.170]:58731 "EHLO longford.logfs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932792AbYEBVew (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2008 17:34:52 -0400 Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 23:34:38 +0200 From: =?utf-8?B?SsO2cm4=?= Engel To: Andi Kleen Cc: Stephen Rothwell , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , David Woodhouse , Arnd Bergmann , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: LogFS merge Message-ID: <20080502213438.GE24080@logfs.org> References: <20080502133234.GA24080@logfs.org> <87k5icvcm4.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <87k5icvcm4.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2 May 2008 19:29:07 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Jörn Engel writes: > > > > So should it simmer in -next and -mm for another month? Should it go > > straight into -linus? > > The main criteria for it going to Linus should be if you would really > trust your data to it now. Would you put your $HOME on it? Merging file > systems too early can quickly ruin their name and that taint is hard > to ever get rid again then (e.g. happened to JFS) Right now I don't, mainly because file creat performance is still too bad on the devices I can buy and attach to my notebook. But something like bittorrent would be an excellent testbed where few large files are created and performance should actually be good enough. Time to eat my dogfood. Jörn -- All art is but imitation of nature. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca