On 2014-10-10 19:43, Bob Marley wrote: > On 10/10/2014 16:37, Chris Murphy wrote: >> The fail safe behavior is to treat the known good tree root as the >> default tree root, and bypass the bad tree root if it cannot be >> repaired, so that the volume can be mounted with default mount options >> (i.e. the ones in fstab). Otherwise it's a filesystem that isn't well >> suited for general purpose use as rootfs let alone for boot. >> > > A filesystem which is suited for "general purpose" use is a filesystem > which honors fsync, and doesn't *ever* auto-roll-back without user > intervention. >
A file system cannot do anything about the *DISKS* not honouring a sync command. That's what the PP was talking about. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
