Re: EXT4-ish "fixes" in UBIFS

From: Theodore Tso
Date: Thu Apr 02 2009 - 22:05:44 EST


On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 05:09:39PM -0700, Christian Kujau wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> > They just say - this is file-system bug, it is fixed in
> > ext4 now, just fix the bug in UBIFS.
>
> Would *mounting* the filesystem with "-o sync" help? This way no
> filesystem "fixes" are needed and userland would not have to be rewritten.

It will, but you might not like the performance.... the reason why
it's there is that some users might want the particular tradeoff, but
it probably wouldn't make a good default.

- Ted
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