Ext4 + barriers=1 + ssd + power loss while commiting to a git repo = broken repo?

Michał Piotrowski mkkp4x4 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 14 15:38:12 UTC 2011


2011/4/14 Jason D. Clinton <me at jasonclinton.com>:
> 2011/4/14 Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 16:53:00 +0200,
>>  Michał Piotrowski <mkkp4x4 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > "Fixed a rare condition that could cause the drive to reset and clear
>> > the data"
>> >
>> > I begin to wonder if it was the right decision to change main drive to
>> > SSD :)
>> >
>> > Maybe it's time to start using data=journal
>>
>> If you want to read some scary stuff some SSDs do take a look at the
>> following
>> comment from LWN: http://lwn.net/Articles/437467/
>
> All the "compacting" firmwares on all SSD's do this.
>
>

I hope that it works this way only on NTFS and do not attempt to free
unused Ext4 space :)

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Best regards,
Michal

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