On Tue, December 12, 2006 5:31 pm, John R Pierce wrote: > I thought file system journals like ext3 were just used for the file > system metadata? inode allocations and directory updates and so forth, > not actual user data?. Note the "data=journal" option in the previous reply. This option forces of writing all data to the jounral, before being written to the actual filesystem. Though, this is not the default (which is data=ordered). -- Daniel