Re: What happened to data=guarded?

From: Theodore Tso
Date: Tue Aug 11 2009 - 14:57:21 EST


On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 05:29:14PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Good to hear. I've so far stayed with data=ordered as I think I'd prefer
> > data=guarded over data=writeback. I'll certainly give it a try when it's
> > available.
>
> Same here. data=writeback already cost me a few files after crashes here :/

What sort of files were you losing? I don't know if we can improve
the implied flush hueristics, but we should at least try to see if we
do something about it.

- Ted
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