Hi Ted, now that FAST'17 is behind us, is there any plan to land the ext4-lazy code (SMR optimizations) to the upstream kernel? This looks like it improves some workloads even without SMR disks, and doesn't have any noticeable overhead for other workloads. I'd guess the one thing that we might want to do is still allow the journal to optionally checkpoint the metadata to the filesystem in the background, when the filesystem is otherwise idle, so that in case of journal loss for some reason the whole filesystem is not lost? Cheers, Andreas
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