[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.30-2

Dieter Plaetinck dieter at plaetinck.be
Sat Jun 13 05:49:23 EDT 2009


On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:41:33 +0200
Tobias Powalowski <t.powa at gmx.de> wrote:

> Am Samstag 13 Juni 2009 schrieben Sie:
> > On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:19:24 +0200
> >
> >
> > What's the Arch policy on the new default mount options for ext3?
> > data=ordered (old, safe, slow behaviour)
> > or
> > data=writeback (new default, faster but riskier)
> >
> > I read on http://lwn.net/Articles/328363/ that you can customize the
> > default setting.
> > Personally I'ld stick to ordered for at least until the new
> > data=guarded arrives but maybe that's just me.
> >
> > Dieter
> It  is not set per default, the defaults you set in fstab are used.
> greetings
> tpowa
> 

And if in fstab you set your options to be "defaults" ? then surely the
kernel has predefined defaults per filesystem (which can be configured
at kernel configuration time), including a "data mode" for ext
filesystems, or am i missing something?

Dieter


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