linux-kernel - RE: Linux 2.6.29

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Date:	Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:12:44 -0700
From:	"Hua Zhong" <hzhong@...il.com>
To:	"'Alex Goebel'" <alex.goebel@...il.com>,
	"'Stefan Richter'" <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
Cc:	"'Jeff Garzik'" <jeff@...zik.org>, "'Mark Lord'" <lkml@....ca>,
	"'Linus Torvalds'" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"'Matthew Garrett'" <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>,
	"'Alan Cox'" <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	"'Theodore Tso'" <tytso@....edu>,
	"'Andrew Morton'" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"'David Rees'" <drees76@...il.com>,
	"'Jesper Krogh'" <jesper@...gh.cc>,
	"'Linux Kernel Mailing List'" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Linux 2.6.29

Good point. We should throw away all the journaling junk and just go back 
to ext2. Why pay the extra cost for something we shouldn't optimize for? 
It's not like the kernel every crashes.

> Absolutely! That's what I thought all the time when following this
> (meanwhile quite grotesque) discussion. Even for ordinary
> home/office/laptop/desktop users (!=kernel developers), kernel crashes
> are simply not a realistic scenario any more to optimize anything for
> (which is due to the good work you guys are doing in making/keeping
> the kernel stable).
> 
> Alex


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