On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 04:38:38PM -0800, Florin Andrei wrote: > On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 19:18 -0500, Alan Cox wrote: > > Ext3 with data-logging enabled and disk write cache off is very reliable. > Would "mount -o sync" add any reliability to that? I don't think so. When you have full logging your fs should always come back sane providing you have disk write cache off. I'm not the expert however