ext3 Bug in 2.4.20

[kwall@kurtwerks.com]

On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 11:06:11AM -0500, Douglas J Hunley wrote:
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> m.w.chang spewed electrons into the ether that resembled:
> > doh... I have my /var using ext3 now... I guess my /var/cache/squid will
> > be having problem on the next power failture...
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> not unless you changed the DEFAULT of journalling. this is really a minor 
> issue folks.

I'm not convinced it is a minor issue. The "data=ordered" mode is the
default, so those of using the default *got lucky*. It *is* worthwhile
noting, though, that it was a bug *introduced* in 2.4.20-pre5. The point
being that things were working fine until then. It was a thinko by the
kernel developer concerned, not some major flaw in the filesystem.

> XFS had its share of issues in its infancy. you're really not being fair by 
> comparing a relativly "new" fs with a relativly "old" one

Agreed. ReiserFS had "issues", too. Rather more than ext3 did.

Kurt
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