ext4 was updated to accept barrier/nobarrier mount options in addition to the older barrier=0/1. The barrier story is complex enough, we should help people by making the options the same at least, even if the defaults are different. This patch allows the barrier/nobarrier mount options for ext3, while keeping nobarrier the default. It also unconditionally displays barrier status in show_options, and prints a message at mount time if barriers are not enabled, just as ext4 ...

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14830 --- Comment #38 from Michael Godfrey <godfrey@isl.stanford.edu> 2010-04-30 06:02:32 --- Just a couple of comments on the posts above: 1. In our environment, home directories are NFS mounted, so vi cannot read .vimrc. It appears that this is where it hangs. The important thing is that nothing appears on the user's screen after typing vi. 2. We do not have an XFS filesystem, so I cannot comment on whether these ...