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From: Redeeman <redeeman@metanurb.dk>
Subject: Re: some basic questions
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 18:05:33 +0100
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the reiserfs test partition i have is version 3.6

On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 17:47, Hubert Chan wrote:
> >>>>> "Redeeman" == Redeeman  <redeeman@metanurb.dk> writes:
> 
> Redeeman> nobody seems to answer :(
> Redeeman> On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 18:26, Redeeman wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> Redeeman> is there anything i should know?
> 
> Reiserfs (v3) only does metadata journalling by default.  That means
> that the filesystem will always be consistent, but you may still get
> data loss.  In order to make sure you don't have any data loss, you
> should use Chris Mason's data logging patches[1], and add either
> "data=ordered" or "data=logging" to your filesystem options.  (Chris
> said that data=ordered would be default eventually, but I'm not sure if
> that has happened yet.)
> 
> [1] ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mason/patches/data-logging/
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