On Fri 2008-05-16 14:05:55, Eric Sandeen wrote: > I can't think of any valid reason for ext3 to not use barriers when > they are available; I believe this is necessary for filesystem > integrity in the face of a volatile write cache on storage. > > An administrator who trusts that the cache is sufficiently battery- > backed (and power supplies are sufficiently redundant, etc...) > can always turn it back off again. > > SuSE has carried such a patch for quite some time now. > > Also document the mount option while we're at it. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Yes please. Safe defaults are the way to go. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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
