On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 05:36, Yusuf Goolamabbas wrote: > Hi, Looking at the latest bk tree via bkbits.net, I see that barrier > support for ext3/reiserfs has been added into 2.6.9-pre. Will Fedora > Core 3 automatically mount with write barriers enabled for ext3 > filesystem on a new install/upgrade. not sure; the performance impact isn't quite know yet, but worse, there is a lot of hardware of which it is suspected that it doesn't quite do barriers right. until there is a firm idea about which that is, enabling it by default sounds bad. (There is a reason it's not enabled by default in the upstream kernel...)
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