> 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? JFYI: SUSE kernel carries for ages a patch which changes this default. I'd be more than happy to drop it ;). Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> SuSE CR Labs -- 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
