also sprach Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.06.02.1545 
+0200]:
> No, it is not.  XFS has bad data-ordering-flush semanthics for
> resilience, they are superb for speed and performance, NOT for
> data safety.  It won't guarantee data safety unless you fsync(),
> umount or mount -o ro,remount... and it does *not* guarantee data
> safety on global sync(), which is what this bug is about.

I suppose you have thought about this before. :)

> If you *do* take the time to make sure sync() is NOT flushing
> everything XFS to disk, *please* file a bug on kernel.org,
> otherwise it will never be fixed where it really matters.

Yes.

> I still think an hibernate scriptlet to mount partitions readonly
> (instead of just umounting them) is a valid, useful wish.  And it
> would fix the issue with /boot as XFS (but not of / as XFS).

Okay. Retitle the bug then?

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