On Tue, 02 Jul 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Daniel Pittman wrote:
>>
>> A while back, after 2.5.6, there were various changes made to the
>> kernel that resulted in some instability with journaled data on ext3
>> filesystems, as well as small issues with my 2k block size file
>> systems.
>>
>> Can someone (say, Andrew Morton ;) comment on the stability of the
>> current release with this sort of configuration?
>>
>> If it's not full of known bugs then I will give it another shot, but
>> I don't want to waste time finding out that it's still known to be
>> broken myself. :)
>
> Nope. data=journal is bust on 2.5. It's also bust on 2.4, for
> the same reason.
Right, thanks.
[...]
> I think Stephen and I agreed on the way to fix it last week,
> but I haven't got onto coding it yet. Probably next week.
When the fixes are in, then, I will check it out. Using writeback mode
should be fine, though, so I will probably switch over to that for the
moment.
[...]
> But the 2k blocksize shouldn't be an issue.
Good to know. I thought that was still the case. :)
Daniel
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