Ext3 users - Jan 2009 - barrier and commit options?

Hello,

On my home server (Debian etch, custom 2.6.28.2 kernel), I am using ext3 
for both root and /home filesystems, with barriers enabled to prevent 
corruption caused by my PATA disk write cache.

Looking for a better performance, I have also set the commit=nr option 
as described in linux-2.6.28.2/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt, so 
that I now have:

niko at petole:~$ mount -t ext3
/dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,commit=30,barrier=1)
/dev/sda3 on /home type ext3 (rw,noatime,commit=30,barrier=1)


I know I may loose the last 30 seconds of "work" (it's just a home
server), but is the filesystem at risk (corruption, whatever, ...) with 
these mount options ?

Thanks,
-- 
Nicolas

On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote:
> I know I may loose the last 30 seconds of "work" (it's just a
home
> server), but is the filesystem at risk (corruption, whatever, ...) with
> these mount options ?
No, why would it? If certain mount options would make a filesystem prone 
to corruption I'd consider this a bug. So apart from losing a few more 
seconds of work in case of an error, the fs should be fine.

C.
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