Re: barriers off by default?

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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
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