Re: raid10n2/xfs setup guidance on write-cache/barrier

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On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Jon Nelson
<jnelson-linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Stan Hoeppner <stan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ..
>> You just stated the the Linux defaults.  Do note that XFS write barriers
>> will ensure journal and thus filesystem integrity in a crash/power fail
>> event.  They do NOT guarantee file data integrity as file data isn't
>> journaled.  No filesystem (Linux anyway) journals data, only metadata.
>
> ..
>
> That's not true, is it? ext3 and ext4 support journal=data.

And btrfs supports COW (as does nilfs2) with "transactions", which
should/could be similar?

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Jon
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