linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 2/2] ext4: Automatically enable journal_async

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Date:	Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:57:47 +0200
From:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>
To:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ext4: Automatically enable journal_async_commit on
	ext4 file systems

On Sep 05, 2009  18:32 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> Now that we have cleaned up journal_async_commit, it's safe to enable
> it all the time.  But we only want to do so if ext4-specific INCOMPAT
> features are enabled, since otherwise we will prevent the filesystem
> from being mounted using ext3.

So, the big question is what to do if not-the-last transaction in the
journal has a bad block in it?  This is fairly unlikely, and IMHO the
harm of aborting journal replay too early is likely far outweighed by
the benefit of not "recovering" garbage directly over the filesystem
metadata.

I had thought that you had rejected the e2fsck side of this patch for
that reason, but maybe my memory is faulty...  We still have some
test images for bad journal checksums that you can have if you want.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.

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