Moshe Yudkowsky wrote: [] > If I'm reading the man pages, Wikis, READMEs and mailing lists correctly > -- not necessarily the case -- the ext3 file system uses the equivalent > of data=journal as a default. ext3 defaults to data=ordered, not data=journal. ext2 doesn't have journal at all. > The question then becomes what data scheme to use with reiserfs on the I'd say don't use reiserfs in the first place ;) > Another way to phrase this: unless you're running data-center grade > hardware and have absolute confidence in your UPS, you should use > data=journal for reiserfs and perhaps avoid XFS entirely. By the way, even if you do have a good UPS, there should be some control program for it, to properly shut down your system when UPS loses the AC power. So far, I've seen no such programs... /mjt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html