Moshe Yudkowsky wrote:
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If I'm reading the man pages, Wikis, READMEs and mailing lists correctly
-- not necessarily the case -- the ext3 file system uses the equivalent
of data=journal as a default.
ext3 defaults to data=ordered, not data=journal. ext2 doesn't have
journal at all.
The question then becomes what data scheme to use with reiserfs on the
I'd say don't use reiserfs in the first place ;)
Another way to phrase this: unless you're running data-center grade
hardware and have absolute confidence in your UPS, you should use
data=journal for reiserfs and perhaps avoid XFS entirely.
By the way, even if you do have a good UPS, there should be some
control program for it, to properly shut down your system when
UPS loses the AC power. So far, I've seen no such programs...
/mjt