[arch-general] Adding new partition to system from unpartitioned space - any reason to not use ext4??

Shridhar Daithankar ghodechhap at ghodechhap.net
Wed Jan 13 21:06:36 EST 2010


On Wednesday 13 January 2010 21:57:04 Christos Nouskas wrote:
>  Kind of late response, but I strongly agree with Thomas. I've had my
> share of truncated files after unclean shutdowns (every single time), some
> kernel modules being among the victims. If you decide to decide to use
> ext4, then it's almost mandatory to use the 'nodelalloc' mount option,
> unless you're positive that unclean shutdowns are unlikely in your setup
> or you don't care about lost data.

Isn't that option auto_da_alloc?

-- 
 Shridhar


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