Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [PATCH] 2.6.11-mm3 patch for ext3 writeback "nobh" option

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Tue Mar 15 2005 - 11:52:14 EST


On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 05:26:36PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> I still don't get why you want a mount option. Sure during development
> it can be nice.. but do you still want it in the production trees??
> (I understand that for small blocksizes you need to fallback code, fine,
> no problem, but why do you want to make it an *option* instead of
> automatic)

Can we get rid of the "nobh" ext2 mount option too so other people don't
get mislead into thinking this is a good idea?

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