Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 08:40:00PM +0300, Al Boldi wrote: > > XFS surely rocks, but it's missing one critical component: data=ordered > > And that's one component that's just too critical to overlook for an > > enterprise environment that is built on data-integrity over performance. > > > > So that's the secret why people still use ext3, and XFS' reliance on > > external hardware to ensure integrity is really misplaced. > > > > Now, maybe when we get the data=ordered onto the VFS level, then maybe > > XFS may become viable for the enterprise, and ext3 may cease to be KING. > > Wow, thanks for bringing an advocacy thread onto linux-fsdevel. Just what > we wanted. Do you have any insight into how to "get the data=ordered > onto the VFS level"? Because to me, that sounds like pure nonsense. Well, conceptually it sounds like a piece of cake, technically your guess is as good as mine. IIRC, akpm once mentioned something like this. But seriously, can you think of a technical reason why it shouldn't be possible to abstract data=ordered mode out into the VFS? Thanks! -- Al - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
