Plans for Logged/Journaled UFS

[Pedro F. Giffuni]

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> 
> Hi,
> 
> Ext3 by default only journals the meta-data
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext3
> 
> From http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ext3_Filesystem_Tips
> "By default, ext3 partitions mount with the 'ordered' data mode. In
> this mode, all data is written to the main filesystem and its metadata
> is committed to the journal, whose blocks are logically grouped into
> transactions to decrease disk I/O"
> 
> You have to enable full journalling by setting the option in fstab to
> journal everything.
> 
> Regards
> David N

I stand corrected. Apparently the data=journal mode is not bad at all
though:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fs8.html

cheers,

Pedro.