linux-ext4 - Re: What happened to data=guarded? (was: ext3: Update Kconfig description of EXT3_DEFAULTS_TO

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Message-ID: <20090811133721.GD29224@think>
Date:	Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:37:21 -0400
From:	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>
To:	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>
Cc:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, jack@...e.cz,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What happened to data=guarded? (was: ext3: Update Kconfig
 description of EXT3_DEFAULTS_TO_ORDERED)

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 03:35:36PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> > The old description for this configuration option was perhaps not
> > completely balanced in terms of describing the tradeoffs of using a
> > default of data=writeback vs. data=ordered.
> 
> Somewhat unrelated, but what happened to the data=guarded patches Chris 
> Mason proposed back in April?

I missed 2.6.31 but plan on sending for 2.6.32.  I promised to send
along a forward port of the patches a while back, but I finally have one
in testing here.  It should go out shortly.

-chris

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