On Wed, 21 May 2008 14:29:49 -0400 Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:03:24AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > afaik there is no need to enable this feature if the machine (actually > > the disks) are on a UPS, yes? > > Yes, as long as you're confident that there won't be a kernel > bug/regression causing a lockup while the server is under severe > memory pressure while doing lots of fsync's, file creations, renames, > etc. That won't cause corruption, will it? The problem is purely one of "data which the disk acked didn't make it to platter"? > And as long as your 100% confident that UPS's will never fail, > janitors will never accidentally hit the Emergency Power Office > switch, and so on. Well. The product of two very small numbers is... -- 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
