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Does JFS work like the ext3 writeback mode or the ordered mode?

I know that the Journaled File System (JFS) does only journaling of the metadata.

But does JFS under Linux work like the ext3 writeback mode or like the ordered mode?

Solution

  • It is similar to ordered mode as per Journaling file systems.

    So it works like ordered mode.

    For a more detailed comparison you can browse the source of inode.c for JFS and inode.c for ext3, along with other files in the respective filesystem directories.