really strange ext4 behavior

Michał Piotrowski mkkp4x4 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 15 16:41:28 UTC 2011


W dniu 15 lutego 2011 00:21 użytkownik Eric Sandeen
<sandeen at redhat.com> napisał:
[..]
> There is no real best-practice tuning without workload details;
> without that, "defaults" is best practice.  :)
>
> (except for ext3, where, for data integrity with a volatile writeback
> cache, defaults + barriers=1, since that safe default was never accepted upstream)

Thanks, I enabled barriers on all my ext3 fs'es. (I use ecryptfs in
certain dirs, so it is difficult
to recover data for them :))


>
> -Eric
>



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