Messages in this thread | | | From | "Al Boldi" <> | Subject | RE: XFS corruption during power-blackout | Date | Wed, 6 Jul 2005 07:24:03 +0300 |
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Sonny Rao wrote: { > > > >On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 07:53:09AM +0300, Al Boldi wrote: > > > >>What I found were 4 things in the dest dir: > > > >>1. Missing Dirs,Files. That's OK. > > > >>2. Files of size 0. That's acceptable. > > > >>3. Corrupted Files. That's unacceptable. > > > >>4. Corrupted Files with original fingerprint. That's ABSOLUTELY > > > >>unacceptable. > > > > > > 2. Moral of the story is: What's ext3 doing the others aren't? > > Ext3 has stronger guaranties than basic filesystem consistency. > I.e. in ordered mode, file data is always written before metadata, so > the worst that could happen is a growing file's new data is written > but the metadata isn't updated before a power failure... so the new > writes wouldn't be seen afterwards. > I believe in newer 2.6 kernels that Reiser has ordered mode (IIRC, courtesy of Chris Mason), but XFS and JFS do not support it. }
Was ordered mode disabled/removed when XFS was add to the vanilla-kernel?
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