Hi, On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 09:55:57AM +0200, Mindaugas Riauba wrote: > From what I read I understood that for typical operations > data=ordered is prefered. For the cases when there are many writes > not appending to files data=journal is the choice. data=journal is really only expected to be a win if you have a lot of synchronous IO (fsync and/or O_SYNC writes). Otherwise it doesn't really gain much, and you still pay the penalty of double-writes. --Stephen