On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 2:16 AM, Daniel Taylor <Daniel.Taylor@xxxxxxx> wrote: > One of the program managers here asked me a question that I couldn't answer: > > with ext[34] over a RAID-[56] volume, what protection against data > corruption > and loss of existing data does the file system provide for the case of an > incomplete update of the RAID "stripe"? > > I know that anyone with any usable brain cells has their data server on a > nice > UPS, but not all customers are so equipped, and he's concerned about > corruption > during a power failure (loss of unwritten data is OK). > > I can't see any configuration options that would help but I could easily be > missing something. Any ideas? > I don't think you are missing something. check out this article: http://lwn.net/Articles/349970/ -- 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
