Ext3 and write caching by drives are the data killers...

Posted Sep 2, 2009 7:18 UTC (Wed) by Cato (guest, #7643)
In reply to: Ext3 and write caching by drives are the data killers... by dododge
Parent article: Ext3 and RAID: silent data killers?

You are right on both points - when ext3 tries to do barriers on top of LVM it complains at that point, not at time of mounting.