On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As I look at my shiny new 500G disks with 32MB of cache, I find myself > wondering why the default for ext3 and ext4 is to have barriers disabled. > > This is a pretty dangerous default w.r.t. filesystem integrity on power > loss, no? >From reading the documentation, I was under the impression that write barriers don't always do what they're supposed to do. Cheers, Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
