On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 13:40, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > I'd rather go with data=ordered; flash isn't the fastest of media, and > you have much more journal traffic with data=journal. Well, I plan to have several flash drives in a RAID0 configuration and use as large a journal as I can get away with. :) > > . If I understand correctly, that should allow for maximal > > spin down times and still maintain full data integrity after a crash. > > For ext3 filesystems, anyway. :-| > > data=ordered (the default) already preserves full data integrity after a > crash. It's only data=writeback which relaxes the integrity guarantees. However, as I'm shooting for spin down times of hours rather than minutes I would risk losing several hours of work and recent email if the machine crashed. I guess I'll just give it a go and see how it works. Thanks a lot for the advice! MikaL _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
