What about other journaling files systems like XFS?
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 11:54:13AM +0300, Jari Ruusu wrote:
> Dale Amon wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 09:02:32PM +0300, Jari Ruusu wrote:
> > > Problem is that reiserfs guarantees only meta-data integrity but does not
> > > guarantee file-data integrity in system crash situation, yet it assumes that
> > > all lower layer devices do provide data integrity and ordered writes. When
> > > you put journaled fs on loop that can't provide data integrity and ordered
> > > writes all the way down to disk platters, you have problems.
> > >
> >
> > Ah, so you've now explained the reason why I had the only fault I've
> > ever seen on cryptoapi. I had this on my laptop:
> >
> > > reiserfs -> loop -> reiserfs -> partition
> #2 #1
>
> Here reiserfs #1 does not guarantee ordered writes, so fs corruption is
> possible on reiserfs #2.
>
> > and I've had problems with corruption on occasion. However I've had
> >
> > > reiserfs -> loop -> raid1 -> partitions
> >
> > and have had about 2 years of trouble free operation.
>
> Here loop and raid1 provide ordered writes so no corruption.
>
> Regards,
> Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi>
>
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