From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S937027AbYEUTzL (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2008 15:55:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763192AbYEUTyy (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2008 15:54:54 -0400 Received: from mail2.shareable.org ([80.68.89.115]:49465 "EHLO mail2.shareable.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757575AbYEUTyx (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2008 15:54:53 -0400 Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 20:54:42 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier To: Andrew Morton Cc: Pavel Machek , Chris Mason , Eric Sandeen , Theodore Tso , Andi Kleen , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] (RESEND) ext3[34] barrier changes Message-ID: <20080521195442.GA27231@shareable.org> References: <482DDA56.6000301@redhat.com> <20080518211140.b29bee30.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <200805191316.27551.chris.mason@oracle.com> <200805191439.36577.chris.mason@oracle.com> <20080521112224.GD5028@ucw.cz> <20080521110324.668048e0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080521110324.668048e0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: > If we do make this change I think it should be accompanied by noisy > printks so that as many people as possible know about the decision > which we just made for them. I favour saying barrier=1 in /proc/mounts, even though it will become the new default. At least for a while. -- Jamie