Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: [ext3-users] To compare Linux journalisedfilesystem, part II.

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On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 12:27, Chris Mason wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 13:08, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > On Oct 24, 2002  18:45 +0200, Fabien Combernous wrote:
> > > +--------+------------------------------------------------------------------+
> > > | quotas | Again "Y" is not aqual. ext3 accept quota only on data-journaled |
> > > |        | filesystems, but all other journaled filesystem don't have data  |
> > > +--------+------------------------------------------------------------------+
> > 
> > Granted that I have never used quotas, so it is possible that I
> > am incorrect.  However, my understanding is that yes, you do need
> > data-journaled quota files to ensure that your quota tables don't miss
> > some operations after a crash.  However, you can separately select
> > data journaling for files in ext3 (via chattr), even if the rest of
> > the filesystem is using data=ordered (the default).
> 
> data journaling on the quota files is better.  Some quota updates (dqput
> calling commit_dquot) are done only by clear_inode(), which should
> happen outside the transaction and won't be grouped with the actual
> metadata change.
> 

XFS quota file updates are transactional with the original metadata
change which allocated or freed space. So while we do not have data
journalling, quota updates are journalled.

Steve

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Principal Engineer, Filesystem Software         email: lord@sgi.com



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