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authorDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>2010-07-23 06:49:41 -0400
committerJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>2010-07-23 06:50:55 -0400
commitaa32a796389bedbcf1c7714385b18714a0743810 (patch)
treee94971744e7ceb5585cb04f0ae41d6c3e46a0508
parent43d2932d88e4ab776dd388c20b003ebd5e1d1f1f (diff)
ext3: default to ordered mode
data=writeback mode is dangerous as it leads to higher data loss and stale data exposure when systems crash. It should not be the default, especially when all major distros ensure their ext3 filesystems default to ordered mode. Change the default mode to the safer data=ordered mode, because we should be caring far more about avoiding stale data exposure than performance. CC: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Acked-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
-rw-r--r--fs/ext3/Kconfig1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext3/Kconfig b/fs/ext3/Kconfig
index 522b15498f45..e8c6ba0e4a3e 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/ext3/Kconfig
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ config EXT3_FS
31config EXT3_DEFAULTS_TO_ORDERED 31config EXT3_DEFAULTS_TO_ORDERED
32 bool "Default to 'data=ordered' in ext3" 32 bool "Default to 'data=ordered' in ext3"
33 depends on EXT3_FS 33 depends on EXT3_FS
34 default y
34 help 35 help
35 The journal mode options for ext3 have different tradeoffs 36 The journal mode options for ext3 have different tradeoffs
36 between when data is guaranteed to be on disk and 37 between when data is guaranteed to be on disk and