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Re:Why Google Pixel lags 10x more than Moto Z by jbg_ on Monday December 12, 2016 @05:10AM (#13156992)
If you mount with nobarrier I'd say that the chances are somewhat higher than 0%
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Re:Why Google Pixel lags 10x more than Moto Z by nabanicu on Monday December 12, 2016 @05:38AM (#13157122)
Not with any filesystem with a proper journaling system. Filesystem corruption is almost impossible.
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Re:Why Google Pixel lags 10x more than Moto Z by c3833174 on Monday December 12, 2016 @06:31AM (#13157311)
Barriers are what force the journal to be written consistently, and IIRC they were enabled by default after 2.6.31 because of corruption with ext4.
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