Question about Cyrus, ext3, and Linux kernel 2.4.18 bug

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Michael Fair wrote:
> I think it's worth noting that XFS under no configuration
> journals your data.  Only your metadata.  Under certain procedures

But it obeys fsync, and Cyrus does judicious use of that to keep your data
safe.

> but the data not being journaled but I have decided that until
> XFS has data journal, that it is not a viable journaling filesystem
> to protect against corruption.  It is however, a very fast file

Data journals are protection against badly written programs. Most people use
them to try to get a bit more performance in certain configurations, not as
a dataloss protection.
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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
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  Henrique Holschuh