On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Venkatesh Srinivas <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > ext3 has a filesystem option, 'data=journal', described in > Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt as 'All data are committed into the data=ordered meaning: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/25/493 http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/8/24/187 http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext3_data_mode_tradeoffs http://lwn.net/Articles/322823/ In the email below, Theodore has tried very hard to word his explanation clear enough to be understood by everyone, and the links that follows is his official write-up: http://markmail.org/message/t773wvje5iaitp4v?q=ext3+filesystem+order+theodore&page=1&refer=6lxrrxbg6yzlhrsn http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext3_Data%3DOrdered_vs_Data%3DWriteback_mode I hope he has accomplished his job :-). > journal prior to being written into the main file system.' > > On LWN (in comments) and on a few other sites, I see people say that > this option is 'broken'. > > What ordering constraints does it enforce beyond data=ordered? What do > the commenters mean when they say it is 'broken'? > > Thanks, > -- vs > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with > "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ > > -- Regards, Peter Teoh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
