linux-kernel - Re: [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 8/8] Revert "ext4: fix wrong gfp type under transaction"

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Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.75.62.1701280016010.6590@qynat-yncgbc>
Date:   Sat, 28 Jan 2017 00:17:04 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Lang <david@...g.hm>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
cc:     "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>, djwong@...nel.org,
        Chris Mason <clm@...com>, David Sterba <dsterba@...e.cz>,
        ceph-devel@...r.kernel.org, cluster-devel@...hat.com,
        linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, logfs@...fs.org,
        linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 8/8] Revert "ext4: fix wrong gfp type
 under transaction"

On Fri, 27 Jan 2017, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 11:40:42AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>> The reason why I'm nervous is that nojournal mode is not a common
>> configuration, and "wait until production systems start failing" is
>> not a strategy that I or many SRE-types find.... comforting.
>
> What does SRE stand for?

Site Reliability Engineer, a mix of operations and engineering (DevOps++)

David Lang