On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:11:27AM -0400, Ted Ts'o wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 05:29:08AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > This series converts over all filesystems to the new WRITE_FLUSH_FUA > > primitive that Tejun added. XFS, btrfs, gfs2, reiserfs, ext3 and ext4 > > have passed extensive xfstests coverage with this, while ocfs2, nilfs2 > > and fat are unsupposed by xfstests and thus untested in this patch. > > Tejun's patches didn't make the merge window, right? No. > I wonder if it makes sense to make a special appeal to Linus to get > the new kernel interface(s) for WRITE_FLUSH_FUA into 2.6.36-rc2 (without > any callers) to make it easier for us to do testing and merging into > our respective file system trees? I don't think that's feasible. The code added is not new but modifies/replaces the existing barrier state machine. What we'll have to instead is to have a tree with all these changes for testing. I've already got the promise from the RH filesystem QA team to get some powerfail testing resources allocated to this. -- 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
