linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 2/3] fs: Remove ext3 filesystem driver

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Message-ID: <55A699CD.5090304@gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 15 Jul 2015 13:35:09 -0400
From:	Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>
CC:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Ted Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] fs: Remove ext3 filesystem driver

On 2015-07-15 12:58, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Also, what's the status of ext4's data=journal?  It's the hardest ext3
> mode for the rest of the kernel to support and I suspect hardly anyone
> uses it.
I use it, as do some other people I know, but only for stuff that pretty 
much needs to be 100% guaranteed to be consistent after a power failure. 
  It is _very_ slow, but it does work correctly based on my recent 
experience.



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