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Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 00:35:21 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@...reable.org> To: Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu> Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] (RESEND) ext3[34] barrier changes Eric Sandeen wrote: > I'll propose that very close to 0% of users will ever report "having > barriers off seems to have corrupted my disk on power loss!" even if > that's exactly what happened. And it'd be very tricky to identify in a > post-mortem. Ooh. Might it be possible for fsck to identify certain problems as likely caused by power loss in misordered writes? If metadata sectors had an update generation number, to be compared with journal entries, perhaps that would be more feasible. -- Jamie -- 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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