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Subject: [Bug 16081] Data loss after crash during heavy I/O
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 17:53:58 GMT
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--- Comment #9 from Eric Sandeen 2010-06-02 17:53:52 ---
(In reply to comment #8)
> ... The system boots as I write this, and I'll continue the
> same backup-tests but this time without barriers on both filesystems.
no... turning barriers -off- certainly won't help anything.
Whenever I see bad metadata corruption post-crash-and-reset I worry about
missing barriers. My mention of them was only to see whether they are properly
in use, as they should be on any storage w/ a volatile write cache.
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