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

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:52:15 +0300
Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 12:49, Dieter Plaetinck<dieter at plaetinck.be>
> wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Also it should be noted that realatime is the default now,
> so users who didn't use relatime option should add norelatime now.
> 

Afaik relatime is pretty harmless though

Dieter