> I read it on the ext3fs mail list last week, don't have a reference with
> me at work.  Any one else know more about this?

Basically, due to an attempt to 'optimise' the writes, they landed afoul in a 
situation where the meta/journal data would not be written out to disk explicitly if 
you had altered the disk contents and then proceeded to unmount / poweroff within 30 
seconds of that. . . .sort of kills the whole safety aspect of journalling.

As they say, first rule of optimisation ... "Don't do it".


Regards.

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