On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 4:32 AM, Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Don't forget to mention data=writeback is not the default because if > your system crashes or you lose power running in this mode it will > *CORRUPT YOUR FILESYSTEM* and you *WILL LOSE DATA*. Not to mention > the significant security issues (e.g stale data exposure) that also > occur even if the filesystem is not corrupted by the crash. IOWs, > data=writeback is the "fast but I'll eat your data" option for ext3. > > So I recommend that nobody follows this path because it only leads > to worse trouble down the road. Your best bet it to migrate away > from ext3 to a filesystem that doesn't have such inherent ordering > problems like ext4 or XFS.... Is it save to use "data=writeback" with ext4? At least are there security issues? Why do you say, that fs can be corrupted? Metadata is still journalled, so only data might be corrupted, but FS should still be consistent. -- Evgeniy Ivanov -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom policy in Canada: sign http://dissolvethecrtc.ca/ Don't email: <a href