On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:52:15 +0300 Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 12:49, Dieter Plaetinck<dieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:41:33 +0200 > > Tobias Powalowski <t.powa@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> Am Samstag 13 Juni 2009 schrieben Sie: > >> > On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:19:24 +0200 > >> > > >> > > >> > What's the Arch policy on the new default mount options for ext3? > >> > data=ordered (old, safe, slow behaviour) > >> > or > >> > data=writeback (new default, faster but riskier) > >> > > >> > I read on http://lwn.net/Articles/328363/ that you can customize > >> > the default setting. > >> > Personally I'ld stick to ordered for at least until the new > >> > data=guarded arrives but maybe that's just me. > >> > > >> > Dieter > >> It is not set per default, the defaults you set in fstab are used. > >> greetings > >> tpowa > >> > > > > And if in fstab you set your options to be "defaults" ? then surely > > the kernel has predefined defaults per filesystem (which can be > > configured at kernel configuration time), including a "data mode" > > for ext filesystems, or am i missing something? > > Also it should be noted that realatime is the default now, > so users who didn't use relatime option should add norelatime now. > Afaik relatime is pretty harmless though Dieter