Background fsck

[Diego Calleja García]

El Tue, 20 Jan 2004 01:12:40 -0500 Dan Melomedman <dan at xxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:

> Interesting that EXT3 right now has "data=ordered", "data=writeback",
> and "data=journal" modes. I presume the metadata journal updates are
> always atomic, while the data can be written in those three modes. In
> the ordered mode, the data is written to the disk first. Is this similar
> to the traditional 'sync' mount, or you will still lose data in a crash?

The reiserfs people have a very nice paper about their new reiser4 fs.
It looks like they have "data journaling" for free. Or that's what I can
understand (IMHO reiser4 is just too complex)

http://namesys.com/v4/v4.html#atomic_fs