barrier and commit options?
Nicolas KOWALSKI
nicolas.kowalski at gmail.com
Fri Jan 30 15:25:47 UTC 2009
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 04:17:54PM +0100, Christian Kujau wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote:
>> I know I may loose the last 30 seconds of "work" (it's just a home
>> server), but is the filesystem at risk (corruption, whatever, ...) with
>> these mount options ?
>
> No, why would it? If certain mount options would make a filesystem prone
> to corruption I'd consider this a bug.
Well, not using barrier=1 with disk write cache enabled may cause
corruption apparently...
> So apart from losing a few more seconds of work in case of an error,
> the fs should be fine.
Fine. :)
Thanks for your reply,
--
Nicolas
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