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Improving ext4: bigalloc, inline data, and metadata checksums

Improving ext4: bigalloc, inline data, and metadata checksums

Posted Jan 30, 2012 8:50 UTC (Mon) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767)
In reply to: Improving ext4: bigalloc, inline data, and metadata checksums by raven667
Parent article: Improving ext4: bigalloc, inline data, and metadata checksums

Old thread, I know. But why people are still talking about barriers I'm not sure. Abandoning the use of barriers was agreed upon at the 2010 Linux Filesystem Summit. And they completed their departure in 2.6.37, IIRC. Barriers are no more. They don't matter. They've been replaced by FUA, etc.


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