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On 25.08.2010, Arno Wagner wrote: 

> I went back to ext2 for the time being. This is used only to 
> work on Word documents. The data gets copied off imediately 
> anyways and I have a backup of the complete VM in case 
> something breaks.

You could mount ext3 with "data=journal", this gives identical behaviour.

> Especially more aggressive flushing should help. 
> Will look into it when I have time.

See my reply a few mails above in this thread.