Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757648AbZIPNaR (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:30:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751935AbZIPNaP (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:30:15 -0400 Received: from mx03.syneticon.net ([78.111.66.105]:43249 "EHLO mx03.syneticon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752343AbZIPNaO (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:30:14 -0400 Message-ID: <4AB0E843.8010808@wpkg.org> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:29:39 +0200 From: Tomasz Chmielewski User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090830) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxhippy@gmail.com Subject: Re: Howto switch off ext4's delayed allocation? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 799 Lines: 25 > Just happend again to me. > After the intel driver crashed my system, the source-file I was > working on was empty. Fourtunatly eclipse has a history-log. Never had your /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow zeroed? Lucky you... > Isn't there a way to switch off the more "dangerous" optimizations in ext4? > I already searched howto do this, but from what I've seen there was > only discussion about providing a switch for disabling delayed > allocation, but it was never done? Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt? -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/