JLS2009: A Btrfs update
Posted Nov 1, 2009 19:55 UTC (Sun) by
anton (guest, #25547)
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JLS2009: A Btrfs update by Cato
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JLS2009: A Btrfs update
Yes, data=journal should be ok, unless they introduce one of the file
system corruption bugs like one I read about (for data=journal) some
years ago. I guess this was not noticed during development because
it's a non-default mode, so it's tested by few (and typically those
people who do use such hopefully-safer, slower features don't run bleeding-edge
kernels).
The former default ext3 behaviour (data=ordered) should also be ok
for simple cases such as this (i.e., no overwriting of existing blocks
involved). Unfortunately, Ted T'so, the current maintainer of ext3
wants to degrade ext3 default functionality to the lowest common
denominator (i.e., at least as bad as UFS), with better functionality
available through mount options; will this work out any better than
the non-default data=journal?
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