linux-ext4 - [Bug 70121] Increasing efficiency of full data journaling

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Date:	Fri, 07 Mar 2014 07:16:40 +0000
From:	bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org
To:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [Bug 70121] Increasing efficiency of full data journaling

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70121

--- Comment #6 from sworddragon2@....com ---
> How does the file system know that the file has "successfully been
> written"?  Secondly, even if we did know, in order to guarantee the
> transaction semantics, we *always* update the journal first.  Only
> after the journals is updated, do we write back to the final location
> on disk.  So what you are suggesting just simply wouldn't work.

It seems it is just a too major change. Maybe it is something that could be
considered in ext5.


> it just
> makes it more likely, but if you crash at the wrong moment, you can
> still lose data


I have never seen a damaged file with full data journaling enabled. Can you
show me a race condition so that I can reproduce it? Hm, maybe it would be
possible if the journal is smaller than the file (I'm wondering what would
happen in such a case).

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