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Subject: Re: Linux SATA RAID FAQ
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Sul, 2004-08-15 at 21:54, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> Isn't sufficient to have it do ordered writes ? If you power your
> machine off, you'll have things half-written anyway, the only thing
> important with journaled filesystems (and raid5 arrays) is to have
> writes staying between barriers.

True to a point but 2Gb of data going walkies will offend even if the
file system is gloriously intact