On 982921387 seconds since the Beginning of the UNIX epoch
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>

>Due tue the caching alogoriths it is usually written in order -
>unlike synch were the synch metadata may hit the disk _before_ the
>actual data is commited.  That is bad.

Uh, sync == data is written before metadata, period.  It is enforced,
the situation that you are talking about is what mounting synch is
avoiding.

>> 
>> If you really really think async metadata is the way to go, you can
>> mount async if you prefer to. IIRC there is no option to write
>> only metadata sync on ext2fs under Linux though.
>
>mount -o sync

This isn't quite the same as on BSD.

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