On Fri, 2012-11-16 at 09:40 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Barriers were not made default on ext3 until 2011, in kernel v3.1,
> astonishingly.  So it makes sense that ext3 fared worse than ext4.

Very probable, I do not remember if we had them. But we were testing on
top of eMMC with not write-cache.

Anyway, that was long time ago.

While on it, one problem I remember in an unrelated testing of ext3 on
top of eMMC was related to _read_ errors. Sometimes after an power cut
eMMC returned an ECC error, so a sector could be unreadable. But after
writing to this sector it became fine.

ext3 and the tools treated a read error as fatal. However, in case of
eMMC that was something "normal".

I do not know how the situation changes since then, this was probably in
2009.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy