Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> writes: > [adding Chris to the Cc list - this is about the awful ext3 data=ordered > behavior of syncing the whole file system data and metadata on each > fsync] > > On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 03:57:53PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 3:52 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> > Well, let's be fair; this is something *ext3* got wrong, and it was >> > the default file system back them. >> >> I'm pretty sure reiserfs and btrfs did too.. > > I'm pretty sure btrfs never did, and reiserfs at least looks like > it currently doesn't but I'd have to dig into history to check if > it ever did. So..., is it fair to say that the one you sent in https://public-inbox.org/git/20180117193510.GA30657@xxxxxx/ is the best variant we have seen in this thread so far? I'll keep that in my inbox so that I do not forget, but I think we would want to deal with a hotfix for 2.16 on case insensitive platforms before this topic. Thanks.
