From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751187AbVI1JXz (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Sep 2005 05:23:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751058AbVI1JXz (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Sep 2005 05:23:55 -0400 Received: from h80ad25b8.async.vt.edu ([128.173.37.184]:26509 "EHLO h80ad25b8.async.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750813AbVI1JXy (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Sep 2005 05:23:54 -0400 Message-Id: <200509280923.j8S9Nkgq028579@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.1-RC3 To: iodophlymiaelo@gmail.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: raw aio write guarantee In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Sep 2005 01:56:05 PDT." <98b62faa050928015677d7253b@mail.gmail.com> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <98b62faa050928001275d28771@mail.gmail.com> <200509280757.j8S7vmjB023730@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <98b62faa050928015677d7253b@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1127899425_31960P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 05:23:45 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --==_Exmh_1127899425_31960P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 01:56:05 PDT, iodophlymiaelo@gmail.com said: > I was asking what a user-application can do to prevent data loss, not > an application-user. Right. However, if you actually care about the distinction between "made it to the disk cache" and "made it to the platter", those are things you'll want to address - in particular, if you have one of the evil disk drives I mentioned, there's very little a user application can do to work around it. --==_Exmh_1127899425_31960P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFDOmEhcC3lWbTT17ARAphVAJ43tNjjCmZ1v/REVqW4WdIHjs8NUgCfZiEj NGsVDOZjptyHqGvEhboMM7s= =bCZB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1127899425_31960P--