On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 10:45:54AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> 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.
Does XFS support remounting with the wsync option? Perhaps something
like:
mount -o remount,sync,wsync /boot
If that does the right thing (gets data sync'd to disk ASAP), then
it might be a cleaner solution to include that into the grub
scriptlet, and extendable to systems without a /boot.
Bernard.
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