The POSIX talk is pointless [LWN.net]

The POSIX talk is pointless

Posted Mar 17, 2009 17:31 UTC (Tue) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767)
In reply to: The POSIX talk is pointless by rahulsundaram
Parent article: Garrett: ext4, application expectations and power management

"""
...no filesystem will preserve your data in all cases...
"""

Ext3 with data=journal will come quite close to it, though. In fact, ext3 with data=ordered comes impressively close to it.

"""
With the current patches, you should see the same behaviour in both filesystems.
"""

I'll be running exactly this scenario when 2.6.30 is released to see what happens.

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