linux-ext4 - Re: ext3 default journal mode

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Date:	Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:58:48 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@...hat.com>
Cc:	"linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	Valerie Aurora <vaurora@...hat.com>,
	"Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: ext3 default journal mode

Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@...hat.com> writes:
>
> As I mentioned in an earlier email, I think *every* distribution undid
> this default back to ordered mode.

I would agree too that the default should be changed again. 

Shortly after the default was changed to writeback
I had a (unrelated crash) and afterwards had to fix up several
files in the file system manually that contained junk. Never
has happened before with ordered.

-Andi

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ak@...ux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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