On Jun 16, 2008 22:59 +0000, Gary Hawco wrote: > What is the preferred mode for a home desktop system with ext4? Is > writeback still the fastest, but ordered data has more data integrity? And > does delalloc only work when writeback is enabled? And does the commit=XX > seconds still only work with writeback mode, ala ext3, or is it a valid > option with ordered data mode? Using ordered mode is the default and preferred mode. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. -- 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