Comment 315 for bug 131094

Ritesh.

ext3 has supported writeback mode since at least 2001 (look here:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs8.html), so I hardly
think this could have caused any damage. If you have lost some VMs it
must be because something else is terribly wrong with your setup.

/peter

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 18:15, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <email address hidden> wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 Jun 2010 15:22:04 you wrote:
>> I haven't tried writeback, no. Is it possible to remount with this
>> option, or do I need to modify fstab and reboot?
>
> On the fly remount of the data= mode was denied. And then, setting
> data=writeback into /etc/fstab ended up with a read-only rootfs.
>
> Unless someone confirms, don't do it. My VMs are gone now.
>
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