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mikeH wrote:
> 
> Whats the state of ext3 in this release? I seem to remember reading
> there were some corruption issues.

data=journal is not in very good state.

data=ordered works for normal use, but it will fail in heavy testing
on SMP due to exposure of preexisting bugs.  I have forward ported a
couple of Stephen's patches which appear to fix that up.

data=writeback should be OK.

I'll get the ext3 fixes out over the next few days.