From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753817AbZHXWa3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:30:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753772AbZHXWa2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:30:28 -0400 Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:42840 "EHLO grelber.thyrsus.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753476AbZHXWa1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:30:27 -0400 From: Rob Landley Organization: Boundaries Unlimited To: Artem Bityutskiy Subject: Re: [patch] ext2/3: document conditions when reliable operation is possible Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:30:24 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.2 (Linux/2.6.28-14-generic; KDE/4.2.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Theodore Tso , Florian Weimer , Pavel Machek , Goswin von Brederlow , kernel list , Andrew Morton , mtk.manpages@gmail.com, rdunlap@xenotime.net, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org References: <20090312092114.GC6949@elf.ucw.cz> <20090824130125.GG23677@mit.edu> <4A92A9F9.10706@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4A92A9F9.10706@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200908241730.26356.rob@landley.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 24 August 2009 09:55:53 Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > Probably, Pavel did too good job in generalizing things, and it could be > better to make a doc about HDD vs SSD or HDD vs Flash-based-storage. > Not sure. But the idea to document subtle FS assumption is good, IMO. The standard procedure for this seems to be to cc: Jonathan Corbet on the discussion, make puppy eyes at him, and subscribe to Linux Weekly News. Rob -- Latency is more important than throughput. It's that simple. - Linus Torvalds