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RE: regarding journaling mode

To: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: regarding journaling mode
From: rakesh patel <patelrakeshcomp@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 08:21:16 +0530
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How metadata is committed only after data? Is there any other file system feature? Because write back mode does not preserve it?

Rakesh

From: Dave Chinner
Sent: â07-â07-â2015 05:59
To: Rakesh Patel
Cc: xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: regarding journaling mode

On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 11:38:32AM +0530, Rakesh Patel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I come to know XFS is using writeback journaling mode.

Can you explain how you came to that conclusion?

> As per the
> journaling guide, writeback is unsafe which does not preserve data and
> metadata write synchronization.

What journalling guide would that be? Please quote your sources when
asking questions.

> I really want to know reason behind to choose writeback mode for journaling
> in XFS.

Metadata updates after data IO completion are used instead of
ordering data writeback operations through the journal.

Cheers,

Dave.
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