mode data=journal. Is it safe to use?

Petter Larsen pla at morecom.no
Thu Jun 10 08:57:20 UTC 2004


Hello

I can see that the threads that I have referenced is crash in the 2.4.x
kernel. We use kerrnel 2.6.x. Are there major updates in this kernel for
ext3 or are they much alike the latest 2.4.x kernels?

Petter


On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 10:21, Petter Larsen wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I can see several postings on this mailing-list that people have
> problem
> with mounting ext3 partition with mode data=journal.
> 
> See URL's:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/ext3-users/2004-March/msg00000.html
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/ext3-users/2004-March/msg00050.html
> 
> We are going to use ext3 on a Compact Flash disk in true IDE mode. We
> need this filesystem to be as safe and consistent as possible. We can
> not tolerate any garbage in the files after a crash or sudden power
> failures. We have then decided to use ext3 with mode data=journal.
> 
> Can I rely on this?
> We use kernel 2.6.5 on PowerPC 8260, and may be using newer kernels
> later in the project.
> 
> 
> Best regards
> --
> Petter Larsen
> cand. scient.
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> 913 17 222
> 
> 
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