From: Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@oracle.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "André Dahlqvist" <andre.dahlqvist@telia.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [POT] Which journalised filesystem ?
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 23:53:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BBCDA59.55A5E247@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E15pFzU-0004H7-00@the-village.bc.nu>
Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > Alan mentioned this was something to do with the IBM hard disk
> > > having strange write-cache properties that confuse ext3.
> >
> > Which IBM harddrive(s) does this? How can one check if it does?
>
> Its not specifically IBM, there are two sets of things to watch out for
>
> - Cache flush as a nop/unimplemented. This is legal in all but the
> most recent ATA specification. The spec has been tightened so that
> problem will go in time
>
> - Some IBM laptop drives appeared to fail to write back the cache on
> machine shutdown/suspend etc. The exact rights/wrongs/details on
> that one haven't been pinned down because the folks concerned
> swapped a couple of drives for different ones, saw the problem
> vanish and being a large organisation had the supplier replace the
> other fifty odd.
[asuardi@dolphin asuardi]$ dmesg | grep hda
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x0860-0x0867, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
hda: IBM-DJSA-220, ATA DISK drive
hda: 39070080 sectors (20004 MB) w/1874KiB Cache, CHS=2432/255/63, UDMA(33)
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 >
This one has been used in the last 4 months without any issue
doing lots of shutdowns, suspends, kernel rebuilds etc. ;)
--alessandro
"this is no time to get cute, it's a mad dog's promenade
so walk tall, or baby don't walk at all"
(Bruce Springsteen, 'New York City Serenade')
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-04 21:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-03 12:00 [POT] Which journalised filesystem uses Linus Torvalds ? sebastien.cabaniols
2001-10-03 12:39 ` [POT] Which journalised filesystem ? Rik van Riel
2001-10-03 12:54 ` Dave Jones
2001-10-03 13:00 ` Billy Harvey
2001-10-04 22:14 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-04 22:14 ` Dave Jones
2001-10-04 22:24 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-03 13:01 ` Ragnar Kjørstad
2001-10-03 13:24 ` Dave Jones
2001-10-03 17:51 ` Andrew Morton
2001-10-03 15:34 ` André Dahlqvist
2001-10-04 21:25 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-04 21:53 ` Alessandro Suardi [this message]
2001-10-03 17:03 ` Matthias Andree
2001-10-03 17:36 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-10-03 17:41 ` Dave Jones
2001-10-04 21:09 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-05 10:27 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-10-03 17:40 ` Sujal Shah
2001-10-03 19:13 ` Erik Mouw
2001-10-03 20:52 ` Mark Hahn
2001-10-04 22:49 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2001-10-04 23:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-04 23:55 ` Rik van Riel
2001-10-05 14:57 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-05 15:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-10-05 20:25 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2001-10-05 23:41 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2001-10-06 8:32 ` Tonu Samuel
2001-10-06 9:16 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2001-10-06 16:42 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2001-10-05 22:05 ` Pavel Machek
2001-10-07 0:51 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-10-10 17:29 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-10-05 1:05 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-10-03 17:41 ` Xavier Bestel
2001-10-03 17:53 ` Matthias Andree
2001-10-03 14:33 ` [POT] Which journalised filesystem uses Linus Torvalds ? Dave Cinege
2001-10-03 14:48 ` Sean Hunter
2001-10-03 16:54 ` Fabbione
2001-10-03 17:52 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2001-10-03 18:01 ` Luigi Genoni
2001-10-04 5:42 ` Andrew Ip
2001-10-04 7:32 ` Constantin Loizides
2001-10-04 16:30 ` Nathan Straz
2001-10-04 17:21 ` Hristo Grigorov
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