Re: Linux 2.6.29

Linus Torvalds
2009-03-24T18:03:14Z

On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Theodore Tso wrote:
>
> Try ext4, I think you'll like it. :-)
>
> Failing that, data=writeback for single-user machines is probably your
> best bet.

Isn't that the same fix? ext4 just defaults to the crappy "writeback"
behavior, which is insane.

Sure, it makes things _much_ smoother, since now the actual data is no
longer in the critical path for any journal writes, but anybody who thinks
that's a solution is just incompetent.

We might as well go back to ext2 then. If your data gets written out long
after the metadata hit the disk, you are going to hit all kinds of bad
issues if the machine ever goes down.

Linus