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2.6.30 merge window, part 2

2.6.30 merge window, part 2

Posted Apr 9, 2009 6:37 UTC (Thu) by Felix.Braun (subscriber, #3032)
Parent article: 2.6.30 merge window, part 2

The ext3 filesystem, too, is more careful to flush data to disk when running in the (non-default) data=writeback mode.

Wasn't data=writeback made the default value too?


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2.6.30 merge window, part 2

Posted Apr 9, 2009 9:06 UTC (Thu) by johill (subscriber, #25196) [Link]

It even says so in the next sentence.

data=writeback

Posted Apr 9, 2009 13:32 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

Yes, data=writeback was made the "default default." Obviously different sentences were written at different times...

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