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Re: barriers on filesystems for laptops by default?



martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> writes:

> With respect to http://blog.madduck.net/geek/2006.08.11-xfs-zeroes,
> I thus wonder whether it would make sense for us to turn the
> barrier=1 filesystem option on for *all* filesystems if we detect
> a laptop as the host.
>
> Thoughts?

I think it's useless since 2.6.17 comes with it enabled by default on
XFS. I think we should trust fs developers for their decisions about
enable or not it by default.

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