On Tue 2009-08-11 14:57:03, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 05:29:14PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > Good to hear. I've so far stayed with data=ordered as I think I'd prefer > > > data=guarded over data=writeback. I'll certainly give it a try when it's > > > available. > > > > Same here. data=writeback already cost me a few files after crashes here :/ > > What sort of files were you losing? I don't know if we can improve > the implied flush hueristics, but we should at least try to see if we > do something about it. IIRC... the flush heuristics invoke async flush, so you can still lose data if you are unlucky, no? 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
