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

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Message-ID: <4AA59A82.9090502@gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:42:58 -0400
From:	Ric Wheeler <ricwheeler@...il.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

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.
>
> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
> ---
>   

Hi Ted,

I am not sure that we are really good with ASYNC commit being on all of 
the time - I really worry that we will see lots of issues.

Can we leave it off by default until we get some run time on it?

Ric

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