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Theodore Ts'o 6d41807614 ext3: Update Kconfig description of EXT3_DEFAULTS_TO_ORDERED
The old description for this configuration option was perhaps not
completely balanced in terms of describing the tradeoffs of using a
default of data=writeback vs. data=ordered.  Despite the fact that old
description very strongly recomended disabling this feature, all of
the major distributions have elected to preserve the existing 'legacy'
default, which is a strong hint that it perhaps wasn't telling the
whole story.

This revised description has been vetted by a number of ext3
developers as being better at informing the user about the tradeoffs
of enabling or disabling this configuration feature.

Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-08-24 16:48:32 +02:00
Linus Torvalds bbae8bcc49 ext3: make default data ordering mode configurable
This makes the defautl ext3 data ordering mode (when no explicit
ordering is set) configurable, so as to allow people to default to
'data=writeback' and get the resulting latency improvements.

This is a non-issue if a filesystem has been explicitly set to some
ordering (with 'tune2fs').

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-06 17:16:47 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan 6da0b38f44 fs/Kconfig: move ext2, ext3, ext4, JBD, JBD2 out
Use fs/*/Kconfig more, which is good because everything related to one
filesystem is in one place and fs/Kconfig is quite fat.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20 11:43:59 -07:00