Re: TAKE 934766 - Delay direct I/O completion to a workqueue

[Stephen Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>]

Al Boldi wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote: {
> On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 05:31:58PM +0300, Al Boldi wrote:
>
> > Will this affect XFS behaviour with regards to the non-existent 
> > Ordered-Mode?
>
>
> No.
> }
>
> Is there a way to coax XFS into doing something like ordered mode?
>
> I remember that this ordered-mode behaviour was available before XFS was
> added into the vanilla-Kernel!
>
> --
> Al

The journalling modes in ext3 are all inside the jdb layer and ext3,
xfs has a completely different journalling implementation and I/O path.
Getting xfs to do a data=ordered mode is a fairly fundamental change.

Steve