On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 02:37:02PM -0500, Autif Khan wrote: >> >> That was precisely my ignorance. I did not know about barrier. Adding >> it during mount ro and remount rw seems to have fixed these issues. > > You also didn't say what file system you were using. Was it ext4? > ext3? ext2? What kernel version? On modern kernels barrier is > enabled by default for both ext3 and ext4. The filesystem is ext4. Kernel version is 3.2.0 I could not grep -i barrier in the kernel config. How is barrier enabled or disabled in the kernel by default? -- 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