Synchronous updates on ext3?

[Christopher Smith]

Simon Matter wrote:

>Now it seems not everybody agrees here. I got some questions about this
>and I have also checked Gentoo's ebuild script for cyrus-imapd and they
>force synchronous updates on both ext2 _and_ ext3. Is it really okay to
>use ext3 without synchronous updates or should I change my rpms?
>
http://www.redhat.com/support/wpapers/redhat/ext3/tuning.html#journaling

I think the sad fact of the matter is that it depends on your ext3 
settings. You could write a script to test this... but then someone 
might change their settings later.

--Chris