On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 01:52:17PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 3/30/2013 12:40 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote: > > On 3/30/13 7:49 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > >> Ok, so here's the skinny on the source of our confusion WRT how/when > >> EXT4 replays journals, and it's rather interesting. Ted Ts'o explained > >> the following. > > > > Where was this, out of curiosity? > > Private email exchange with Ted. I thought it was best from an > etiquette standpoint not to wholesale paste his two private emails to > the XFS list, but to summarize. Maybe it would be ok if I put it on my > web server for a couple of days then remove it. > > http://www.hardwarefreak.com/ext4-journaling.txt That again? I'll just point to this post from Ted in 2004: http://zork.net/~nick/mail/why-reiserfs-is-teh-sukc It's the same FUD about XFS journalling and power failures that Ted has been claiming for the past 10+ years. It's been rebutted so many times I can now do it in three words: volatile drive caches. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
