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From: Bojan Smojver <bojan@rexursive.com>
Subject: Re: ext3 v. ext4 writeback mode
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:39:27 +0000 (UTC)
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Bojan Smojver <bojan <at> rexursive.com> writes:

> Given this part of the diff between ext3.txt and ext4.txt in
> Documentation/filesystems of 2.6.30-rc2, does that mean that ext4 in writeback
> mode can still leave garbage in files after the crash?

Ted answered this in detail here:

http://lwn.net/Articles/329008/

Thanks!

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Bojan