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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.11-mm3 patch for ext3 writeback "nobh" option
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
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On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 11:18 -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> Here is the 2.6.11-mm3 version of patch for adding "nobh"
> support for ext3 writeback mode.

can you explain why this is an option ? It's not like the on disk layout
changes or something... is there a reason to ever not want this?