Re: intermediate summary of ext3-2.4-0.9.4 thread

Christoph Hellwig (hch@ns.caldera.de)
Fri, 3 Aug 2001 11:57:59 +0200

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.
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