ext4 and data loss
ext4 and data loss
Posted Mar 12, 2009 14:43 UTC (Thu) by quotemstr (subscriber, #45331)In reply to: ext4 and data loss by epa
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Well first, that's the way it's worked in practice for years, documentation be damned. Second, these semantics are implied by the description of data=ordered.
Posted Mar 12, 2009 15:01 UTC (Thu)
by epa (subscriber, #39769)
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ext4 and data loss
Second, these semantics are implied by the description of data=ordered.
You could be right: I always thought of data=ordered as promising 'no garbage blocks in files that were enlarged just before a crash' but it could be taken as promising more.