Ritesh. ext3 has supported writeback mode since at least 2001 (look here: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs8.html), so I hardly think this could have caused any damage. If you have lost some VMs it must be because something else is terribly wrong with your setup.
/peter On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 18:15, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday 23 Jun 2010 15:22:04 you wrote: >> I haven't tried writeback, no. Is it possible to remount with this >> option, or do I need to modify fstab and reboot? > > On the fly remount of the data= mode was denied. And then, setting > data=writeback into /etc/fstab ended up with a read-only rootfs. > > Unless someone confirms, don't do it. My VMs are gone now. > > > -- > Ritesh Raj Sarraf > RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com > "Necessity is the mother of invention." > > -- > Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/131094 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/131094 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
