[Gllug] Re: RAID on laptop or xfs?

[Russell Howe]

On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 12:59:33PM +0100, Liam Smit wrote:
> Hi
> 
> running a
> journaled FS is better than running a non journaled FS.

Actually with the aforementioned behaviour of IDE drives this may not be
true!

journalling absolutely requires that the drive is truthful and honest. I
suspect 'simpler' filesystems are more forgiving if only half the cache
is flushed to disk, and in a random order. You'll trash a few files,
rather than render most of the journal useless.

That is, however, just an intuition...

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