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Re: Support for journaling modes other than writeback?

To: Jordan Breeding <jordan.breeding@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Support for journaling modes other than writeback?
From: Stephen Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Date: 14 Jun 2002 06:05:27 -0500
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 23:18, Jordan Breeding wrote:
> I believe I read somewhere that even with all of XFS' cool features it 
> is only a writeback journaling fs.  Is there any chance that at least in 
> the 2.5.x tree XFS will become capable of full data and ordered 
> journaling?  Thanks for any info.
> 
> Jordan

These are concepts XFS does not have at all, and adding them in would
be a considerable project. Given the workload here on other projects
I would say there is no chance of SGI doing this in the forseeable
future. Of the two ordered journaling stands the best chance of being
possible.

Steve




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