Barriers and journaling filesystems

Posted Jul 10, 2014 13:30 UTC (Thu) by roblucid (guest, #48964)
In reply to: Barriers and journaling filesystems by 07Srivathsan
Parent article: Barriers and journaling filesystems

Enabling the barrier by default, has been done on openSUSE for years, precisely because data integrity was valued more over benchmark results.

The only issue over enabling it was the poorer showing in comparative benchmark reviews, where the reporters just use defaults without any care for fair comparisons or even reporting on default differences.