On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 11:17:38AM -0600, Arul Selvan wrote: > thanks that answered my question. One more question, is it possible > to stop the delayed block allocation in ext4 ? The fact that you are asking all of these questions is making me very nervous. Why do you care? Application programmers should ***not*** be depending on low-level file system behavior. If you care about what might happen after a crash, you need to use fsync(). - Ted _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users