On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:00:01 -0500, Erik Funkenbusch
<erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Linus Torvolds calls ext3 "moronic".
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/3/24/460
>
> "This is why I absolutely _detest_ the idiotic ext3 writeback behavior. It
> literally does everything the wrong way around - writing data later than
> the metadata that points to it. Whoever came up with that solution was a
> moron. No ifs, buts, or maybes about it."
But unless things have changed, writeback is not the default. Ordered
is. And ordered mode writes the data first, then the metadata, which
apparently Linus agrees with.
So I don't think this is a general criticism of ext3 but rather a
criticism of the worth of that particular mount option (and presumably
of ext4 as well, I don't feel like reading the whole thread).
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-| Bob Hauck
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