linux-kernel - Re: [-mm patch] remove nobh_{prepare,commit}

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Message-Id: <20070626143335.684887f9.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Date:	Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:33:35 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [-mm patch] remove nobh_{prepare,commit}_write()

On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:23:20 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:48:58 -0500
> Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 13:32 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:15:55 +0200
> > > Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > nobh_{prepare,commit}_write() are no longer used.
> > > 
> > > wth?  What happened to ext2 and ext3 nobh mode?  They seem to
> > > have magically and unchangeloggedly disappeared?
> > 
> > They were removed with Nick's new aops patches.
>            ^secretly
> > 
> 
> That much I worked out for myself.  It's kinda staggering that a fairly
> major feature in two fairly major filesystems got removed without even a
> mention in the changelog.  I don't recall having seen it discussed in email
> but I obviously missed that bit.
> 
> Look, I'm one micron from just dropping the whole lot.  These changes
> simply have not received the amount of energy, effort, care, attention and
> testing which a change of this magnitude requires.

so be sure to discuss that (not the patches themselves so much,
but the process(es)) at the kernel summit etc....


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~Randy
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