Why does ext4 lose data?

[Colin Ian King]

Tim,

thanks for drawing our attention to Ted's wisdom.

So the current solution for ext4 data loss is to tweak down the values
in:

/proc/sys/vm/dirty_expire_centisecs 
/proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs

..to make a more robust ext4 but have the penalty of performance loss.
Worth knowing. 

On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 14:01 -0700, Tim Gardner wrote:
> For those of you that have high (or undue) expectations of ext4, here is
> a good description from Ted Tso about what happens to files when your
> computer crashes. Its worth the read.
> 
> https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/317781/comments/45
> 
> rtg
> -- 
> Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
> 
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