On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 19:47, Bernd Schubert wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > It does, but the code has been in testing -suse and on the reiserfs > > list. This dooesn't mean data=ordered is perfect, but it's not quite > > day one either. I can switch the default back, but I'd rather have a > > trial by fire ;-) > > Oh please not, just have a look at german newsgroups, there are real flamewars > about the stability of reiserfs. Everytime someone has a disk problem and a > reiserfs partion is affected by it, then there are more than a dozen answers > that its the fault of reiserfs. PLEASE, don't prove them right. > The code just won't get tested if it isn't turned on. I think I've got all the major issues fixed, and I'm sending to -mm to try and prove that. When we're all happy with the stability of the patches, they can go to -linus.
But there are just as many threads about reiserfs not having data=ordered support. It's an important feature that has been out of mainline for far too long. -chris
