Rick Debay wrote:

> OK, so is the write complete when the journal is written, or is it
> forced all the way through?

By default, journal only journals metadata (i.e. directory structure),
so writing data has nothing to do with it. Use forced writes or mount
the filesystem with 'sync' option or use "full data journaling" feature
of ext3 if you want to be sure.

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