From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753762Ab3AGP7c (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jan 2013 10:59:32 -0500 Received: from mx1.fusionio.com ([66.114.96.30]:33139 "EHLO mx1.fusionio.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753676Ab3AGP7a (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jan 2013 10:59:30 -0500 X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1357574369-03d6a567bb4f440001-xx1T2L X-Barracuda-Envelope-From: clmason@fusionio.com Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 10:59:25 -0500 From: Chris Mason To: Ric Wheeler CC: Keith Chew , linux-kernel , Chris Mason , "linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: data=guarded mode in ext3 Message-ID: <20130107155925.GC30947@shiny> X-ASG-Orig-Subj: Re: data=guarded mode in ext3 Mail-Followup-To: Chris Mason , Ric Wheeler , Keith Chew , linux-kernel , Chris Mason , "linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" References: <50EAEDF0.4010609@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <50EAEDF0.4010609@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2011-07-01) X-Barracuda-Connect: mail1.int.fusionio.com[10.101.1.21] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1357574369 X-Barracuda-Encrypted: AES128-SHA X-Barracuda-URL: http://10.101.1.180:8000/cgi-mod/mark.cgi X-Barracuda-Bayes: INNOCENT GLOBAL 0.0000 1.0000 -2.0210 X-Barracuda-Spam-Score: -2.02 X-Barracuda-Spam-Status: No, SCORE=-2.02 using per-user scores of TAG_LEVEL=1000.0 QUARANTINE_LEVEL=1000.0 KILL_LEVEL=9.0 tests= X-Barracuda-Spam-Report: Code version 3.2, rules version 3.2.2.119191 Rule breakdown below pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 08:46:56AM -0700, Ric Wheeler wrote: > On 12/03/2012 09:34 PM, Keith Chew wrote: > > Hi > > > > Just wanted to check if the "'Data=guarded' mode in Ext3" work started > > by Chris Mason, is still being considered for merging to the mainline > > kernel? Or has that effort stopped? > > > > Regards > > Keith > > > > Hi Keith, > > I think that Chris is spending pretty much all of his time on btrfs these days. > I believe this work is pretty much abandoned at this point... > > What are you looking for specifically from this? Ric has it right, the change was big enough that I didn't think it was worth the risk of changing how ext3 works. Most people are going to want ext4 anyway for a lot of reasons, so it made sense to focus bigger changes in the ext4 code base. -chris