From aa32a796389bedbcf1c7714385b18714a0743810 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:49:41 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] ext3: default to ordered mode

data=writeback mode is dangerous as it leads to higher data loss and stale data
exposure when systems crash. It should not be the default, especially when all
major distros ensure their ext3 filesystems default to ordered mode. Change the
default mode to the safer data=ordered mode, because we should be caring far
more about avoiding stale data exposure than performance.

CC: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
---
 fs/ext3/Kconfig | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/fs/ext3/Kconfig b/fs/ext3/Kconfig
index 522b15498f459d..e8c6ba0e4a3ea6 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/ext3/Kconfig
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ config EXT3_FS
 config EXT3_DEFAULTS_TO_ORDERED
 	bool "Default to 'data=ordered' in ext3"
 	depends on EXT3_FS
+	default y
 	help
 	  The journal mode options for ext3 have different tradeoffs
 	  between when data is guaranteed to be on disk and
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