Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Jan 2013 10:59:25 -0500 | From | Chris Mason <> | Subject | Re: data=guarded mode in ext3 |
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On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 08:46:56AM -0700, Ric Wheeler wrote: > On 12/03/2012 09:34 PM, Keith Chew wrote: > > Hi > > > > Just wanted to check if the "'Data=guarded' mode in Ext3" work started > > by Chris Mason, is still being considered for merging to the mainline > > kernel? Or has that effort stopped? > > > > Regards > > Keith > > > > Hi Keith, > > I think that Chris is spending pretty much all of his time on btrfs these days. > I believe this work is pretty much abandoned at this point... > > What are you looking for specifically from this?
Ric has it right, the change was big enough that I didn't think it was worth the risk of changing how ext3 works. Most people are going to want ext4 anyway for a lot of reasons, so it made sense to focus bigger changes in the ext4 code base.
-chris
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