Quite a few times over the years have I had Ubuntu lock-up at some point, and upon starting I have found that the file system has been damaged in some way. I only notice what went wrong when trying to access files during development and getting errors, making me have to clone repos and whatnot all over. I thought journalling was supposed to take care of this, but does not seem so ... For the last few years, Ubuntu has been running in VMWare, and that has worked pretty darn well, but some time ago the VM crashed - again causing file system corruption on the ext3 partition.
This left me wondering: Windows and the device drivers has its own layer of file system caching. Can I disable write caching in Ubuntu without a noticeable performance hit in order to avoid/minimize file system corruption? Running on SSDs and such makes the performance pretty good anyway.
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