Re: [RFC PATCH] ext3 writepage() journal avoidance

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Mar 10 2006 - 03:23:37 EST


Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > I'm not sure that PageMappedToDisk() gets set in all the right places
> > though - it's mainly for the `nobh' handling and block_prepare_write()
> > would need to be taught to set it. I guess that'd be a net win, even if
> > only ext3 uses it..
>
> btw is nobh mature enough yet to become the default, or to just go away
> entirely as option ?

I don't know how much usage it's had, sorry. It's only allowed in
data=writeback mode and not many people seem to use even that.

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