On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:53:26PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > I've taken the change just updating the changelog to: > ext3: default to ordered mode > > data=writeback mode is dangerous as it leads to higher data loss and stale data > exposure when systems crash. It should not be the default, especially when all > major distros ensure their ext3 filesystems default to ordered mode. Change the > default mode to the safer data=ordered mode, because we should be caring far > more about avoiding stale data exposure than performance. > > Do you agree Dave? Fine by me ;) Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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