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SubjectRe: precise characterization of ext3 atomicity
Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> wrote:
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> Is it correct to say of ext3 that it guarantees and only guarantees
> atomicity of writes that do not cross page boundaries?

Yes.

> By contrast, ext3 only guarantees the atomicity of a single write
> that does not span a page boundary, and it guarantees that its internal
> metadata will not be corrupted even if your applications data is
> corrupted after the crash.

Not sure that I understand this. In data=writeback mode, metadata
integrity is preserved but data writes may be lost. In data=journal and
data=ordered modes the data and the metadata which refers to it are always
in sync on-disk.

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