From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: 2.6.35-r5 ext3 corruptions Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:55:58 +1000 Message-ID: <20100723105558.GB7362@dastard> References: <20100715105745.GI30737@dastard> <20100719224512.GD32635@dastard> <20100721063222.GW32635@dastard> <20100723104313.GA6431@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <20100723105326.GB6431@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Jan Kara Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100723105326.GB6431@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org 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