From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay1.corp.sgi.com [137.38.102.111]) by oss.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C98267F37 for ; Thu, 9 Jul 2015 03:46:10 -0500 (CDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.157.11]) by relay1.corp.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2DAA8F8035 for ; Thu, 9 Jul 2015 01:46:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx2.suse.de (cantor2.suse.de [195.135.220.15]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id C4YInVbBGK1e8YD9 (version=TLSv1 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 09 Jul 2015 01:46:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 10:46:02 +0200 From: Jan Kara Subject: Re: regarding journaling mode Message-ID: <20150709084602.GA2900@quack.suse.cz> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Rakesh Patel Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com On Thu 09-07-15 10:18:55, Rakesh Patel wrote: > https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt > > data=writeback Data ordering is not preserved, data may be written > into the main file system after its metadata has been > committed to the journal. But this is about ext4, not xfs. XFS works differently and provides necessary data safety guarantees. Honza -- Jan Kara SUSE Labs, CR _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs