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Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem

Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem

Posted Mar 13, 2009 23:34 UTC (Fri) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767)
In reply to: Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem by MisterIO
Parent article: Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem

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Well, after I saw that with nodelalloc "the performance will (still) be better than ext3", I immediately made that my default mount option.
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On the other hand, you are now on the less well tested path. I remember an ext3 bug a few years ago that caused data loss... but only for those people who mounted "data=journal" just to be safe. I'm always a bit nervous about straying from defaults.


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