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Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 12:53:01 -0500 From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com> To: Eric A <erpo41@...il.com> CC: ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: barriers off by default? Eric A wrote: > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com> wrote: >> As I look at my shiny new 500G disks with 32MB of cache, I find myself >> wondering why the default for ext3 and ext4 is to have barriers disabled. >> >> This is a pretty dangerous default w.r.t. filesystem integrity on power >> loss, no? > > From reading the documentation, I was under the impression that write > barriers don't always do what they're supposed to do. Which documentation? Thanks, -Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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