On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 08:43:25AM +1100, David Chinner wrote: > ext3 is not the only filesystem that will have trouble due to > volatile write caches. We see problems often enough with XFS > due to volatile write caches that it's in our FAQ: In fact it will hit every filesystem. A write-back cache that can't be forced to write back bythe filesystem will cause corruption on uncontained power loss, period. - 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