Hi! > > > As already mentioned, ext3 is just not a good choice for this sort of > > > thing. Did you have atimes enabled? > > > > At least for ext3, more important than atimes is the "data=writeback" > > setting. Especially since our atime default is sane these days (ie if > > you don't specify anything, we end up using 'relatime'). > > > > If you compile your own kernel, answer "N" to the question > > > > Default to 'data=ordered' in ext3? > > > > at config time (CONFIG_EXT3_DEFAULTS_TO_ORDERED), or you can make sure > > "data=writeback" is in the fstab (but I don't think everything honors > > it for the root filesystem). > > 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 You will lose your data, but the filesystem should still be consistent, right? Metadata are still journaled. > the significant security issues (e.g stale data exposure) that also > occur even if the filesystem is not corrupted by the crash. IOWs, I agree on security issues. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>