[geeks] Whoo hoo... now this is a nice Linux

Bryan Fullerton bryanf at samurai.com
Wed Mar 12 22:17:08 CST 2003


On Wednesday, Mar 12, 2003, at 12:37 Canada/Eastern, Mike Meredith 
wrote:

> I believe you are more likely to run into a failure mode that no
> filesystem has come up with an answer for ... a disk failure. Because
> of the ways the numbers have tumbled for me, I've seen more instances
> of UFS (Solaris) losing data than ext2.

Does ext2 still default to async writes?

Bryan


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