From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.35-r5 ext3 corruptions
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:55:58 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100723105558.GB7362@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100723105326.GB6431@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:53:26PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> I've taken the change just updating the changelog to:
> ext3: default to ordered mode
>
> data=writeback mode is dangerous as it leads to higher data loss and stale data
> exposure when systems crash. It should not be the default, especially when all
> major distros ensure their ext3 filesystems default to ordered mode. Change the
> default mode to the safer data=ordered mode, because we should be caring far
> more about avoiding stale data exposure than performance.
>
> Do you agree Dave?
Fine by me ;)
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-23 10:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-15 10:57 2.6.35-r5 ext3 corruptions Dave Chinner
2010-07-15 11:26 ` Dave Chinner
2010-07-15 18:23 ` Josef Bacik
2010-07-15 20:14 ` Johannes Hirte
2010-07-19 22:45 ` Dave Chinner
2010-07-21 6:32 ` Dave Chinner
2010-07-21 11:07 ` Török Edwin
2010-07-21 14:01 ` Eric Sandeen
2010-07-21 13:55 ` Eric Sandeen
2010-07-23 10:43 ` Jan Kara
2010-07-23 10:53 ` Jan Kara
2010-07-23 10:55 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2010-07-23 10:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
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