Synchronous updates on ext3?

Lawrence Greenfield leg+ at andrew.cmu.edu
Thu Aug 29 08:47:09 EDT 2002


   Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 08:53:09 -0300
   From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh at debian.org>
[...]
   Don't try to second-guess the user. If anyone is dumb enough to enable
   data=writeback in ext3, he deserves what he gets.

data=writeback is also safe, since Cyrus specifically calls fsync()
before doing any crucial metadata operations.

Larry





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