From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 05:58:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 05:58:15 -0400 Received: from ns.caldera.de ([212.34.180.1]:28893 "EHLO ns.caldera.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 05:58:03 -0400 Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 11:57:59 +0200 Message-Id: <200108030957.f739vx322738@ns.caldera.de> From: Christoph Hellwig To: matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de (Matthias Andree) Cc: Matthias Andree , Paul Jakma , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Eric W. Biederman" Subject: Re: intermediate summary of ext3-2.4-0.9.4 thread X-Newsgroups: caldera.lists.linux.kernel In-Reply-To: <20010803103954.A11584@emma1.emma.line.org> User-Agent: tin/1.4.4-20000803 ("Vet for the Insane") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.2 (i686)) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In article <20010803103954.A11584@emma1.emma.line.org> you wrote: > They'd just drop Linux from the list of supported OS's, Linux will > disappoint people who trusted it, nothing is gained. Deliberate breakage > will not happen, because it would not help anyone except people with > twisted minds. Who cares? There are more than enough sane mailer around.. > NO-ONE, including you, has come up with SERIOUS objections against a > dirsync option, except "is it really so much slower than chattr +S? show > figures" -- ext3 is being tuned to be fast in spite of chattr +S. Talk is cheap. Code up a non-invasive dirsync option and submit it to Linus. I don't see any reason why it won't be accepted.. Christoph -- Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.