linux-ext4 - Re: RFC PATCH: ext4 no journal corruption with locale-gen

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Message-ID: <20090701183509.GB31235@skywalker>
Date:	Thu, 2 Jul 2009 00:05:09 +0530
From:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>
Cc:	Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@...gle.com>, Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC PATCH: ext4 no journal corruption with locale-gen

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:13:27PM +0200, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Jun 22, 2009  09:42 -0700, Curt Wohlgemuth wrote:
> > I tested the locale-gen example with all combinations of
> > 
> >    data=writeback
> >    data=ordered
> >    data=journal
> >    <no journal at all>
> 
> On an unrelated note - would it be useful to mount an ext4 filesystem
> with a journal using "data=none" (or similar) to run without a journal?
> 

I think this is better. I would suggest data=nojournal. That way we can
check the mount options to figure out whether we are running with
journal or not. Also i guess this enables us to run without using a
journal even if  mke2fs created a journal for us

-aneesh
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