On Sunday June 25, val_henson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Choosing journaling mode in ext3 > - Default is "ordered", usually the right choice > - "journal" is slower but guarantees data is on-disk as well 'journal' doesn't make any extra guarantees over 'ordered'. It can provide lower latencies for synchronous updates as writes don't require as many seeks. I have found that data=journal makes NFS go faster. > - "writeback" is faster but may result in garbage/security leaks in > your file data NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html