Re: Transactions

On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 04:25:20PM +0100, Helge Bahmann wrote:
> You will still experience data loss if you do not use a journalling
> filesystem; get the ext3 patches or try reiserfs.

I believe this statement is wrong.

fsync should force all data to disk.  Period.  Regardless of using ext2,
ext3, or reiserfs.

ext3/reiserfs *may* gain some benefit if running with -F, but even then,
I believe both still only journal meta-data, not the data itself, so you
could still have data stuck in cache if you don't use fsync.

mrc
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