Re: Ouch, here's an odd one.

[Jay Weber <jweber valinux com>]

> If you are not running in "data=journal" mode, there is no guarantee that
> the data made it to disk, only that the metadata is OK.  This is true for
> ext2 as well.  I assume CVS should do a sync() or something to keep the
> repository correct.  I guess we need to determine if that is true, otherwise
> the bug is in CVS.

Right, I was thinking along the same lines in that it seems buffered (in
memory) data isn't accounted for in the case of metadata only journaling.

I guess this is a risk you run when wanting the increased performance? :)

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