does the eide disk problem also affect reiserfs?
Should I disable writeback mode?
--- Thierry Vignaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> about "reiserfs ate my /var partition", note that
> ext3 writeback mode where
> metadata only are journalized, you can still have
> old date or mix of old and new
> data in your files on remount after crash.
> ext3 ordered mode should be safer. but :
>
> note also that for eide disks, most of them works in
> writeback mode by default,
> ie the eide controller lye to the OS and say "ok, it
> has just been written on
> the disk" whereas it's only in the disk cache.
> so eide disks can lead to corruption dispite the
> medata journal.
> scsi disks should be safer here.
>
> there're also other hw problems than can lead to
> metadata corruption like the
> via bugs, the dma engine still writing do disk when
> the power is shoot down
> because it's powered longer than ram (ram needs to
> be refresh thousands times
> per second to keep its data), ...
>
> reiserfs
>
>
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