On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:22:46AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > Christian Kujau wrote: > > On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote: > >> I know I may loose the last 30 seconds of "work" (it's just a home > >> server), but is the filesystem at risk (corruption, whatever, ...) with > >> these mount options ? > > > > No, why would it? If certain mount options would make a filesystem prone > > to corruption I'd consider this a bug. > > Well, that's not exactly true. Turning off barriers, depending on your > storage, could lead to corruption in some cases. Mounting with > data=writeback can expose stale data, which could even be a security issue. > > But as long as you make these decisions consciously, they may fit your > needs. > > > So apart from losing a few more > > seconds of work in case of an error, the fs should be fine. > > This part is correct, barriers on and longer commit time should not > affect filesystem consistency / integrity. Ok, I'm more relaxed about my data then. :) Thanks for your reply, -- Nicolas _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
