[clug] ext3 in writeback mode
Andrew Pollock
andrew-clug at andrew.net.au
Tue Jun 1 23:38:33 GMT 2004
Hi,
I'm rebuilding my mail server, and I'm switching from mbox format to Maildir
format.
I'm wondering if I should use writeback mode for the (ext3) /home
filesystem, because apparently it's way fast[0].
Google hasn't come back with any absolute horror stories of uber corruption,
and the manpage for mount doesn't have a big red flag next to using
writeback mode, it just says you may suffer from deja vu after a crash.
Has anyone got any war stories with respect to using ext3 in writeback mode?
regards
Andrew
[0] http://www.gurulabs.com/ext3-reiserfs.html
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