On 19 Apr 2002, Eric Sandeen wrote: > On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 11:33, Bill Crawford wrote: > > > Is this now equivalent to ext3's default "ordered data" mode then? > > It sounds like this would make xfs more reliable than reiserfs for me. > > Not exactly. > > While ext3's ordered data mode enforces "data before metadata," the > change I described in xfs removes forced "metadata before data" cases, > but does not enforce the inverse. I.e. xfs does not have strict "data > before metadata" ordering, but it no longer forces the undesirable > "metadata before data" ordering in most cases. > > Hm, does that make sense? :) Absolutely :o) I'm curious because I've had the odd problem with garbage data ending up in open files at the time of a crash. Fortunately the crashes are infrequent these days, usually associated with 3D games; but it can be annoying to find GNOME won't start up properly or some app crashes due to garbage in config files. > -Eric
