Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:35:23 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC] ext3 data=guarded v3 |
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On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Chris Mason wrote: > > Here is another version of the data=guarded work for ext3. The main > difference between this code and yesterday's is the guarded writepage > function now sends any newly allocated block through the old data=ordered code.
I'm inclined to apply the first two patches as infrastructure, since they seem to make sense regardless of data=ordered. The ability to get a callback when IO ends sounds like something that a number of cases might find intriguing, and it's obviously how the actual IO has worked internally anyway.
Comments?
Linus
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