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Message-ID: <48289747.7000301@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 12 May 2008 14:15:19 -0500
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	Eric A <erpo41@...il.com>
CC:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: barriers off by default?

Eric A wrote:

> I agree; it's just something that's been bugging me since I started
> searching for a solution for zfs-fuse. Maybe performance is the
> reason? Flushing the write cache is kind of slow.

So is journal=ordered, so is journaling at all for that matter.

But if 32MB of your just-flushed-from-log metadata evaporates on power
loss, it was all a bit of a waste IMHO...

-Eric
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