Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:38:35 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [Patch] document ext3 requirements (was Re: [RFD] Incremental fsck) |
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On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 08:43:25AM +1100, David Chinner wrote: > ext3 is not the only filesystem that will have trouble due to > volatile write caches. We see problems often enough with XFS > due to volatile write caches that it's in our FAQ:
In fact it will hit every filesystem. A write-back cache that can't be forced to write back bythe filesystem will cause corruption on uncontained power loss, period.
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