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From: miquels@cistron-office.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [POT] Which journalised filesystem ?
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 23:41:43 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9plgfn$6kq$2@ncc1701.cistron.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1669uyuqy.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> <E15pbX5-0007do-00@calista.inka.de>

In article <E15pbX5-0007do-00@calista.inka.de>,
Bernd Eckenfels  <ecki@lina.inka.de> wrote:
>In article <m1669uyuqy.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> you wrote:
>> Definentily.  We want a write-barrier however we can get it.
>
>Does that mean we can or we can't? Is there a flush write cache operation in
>ATA? I asume there is one in SCSI?

Well hdparm has a -W option with which you can turn on/off the
write cache. If that works (and it appears it does) you should be
able to turn write cache off, write *one* block so that the
cache gets flushed and turn it back on. I'm not sure how to
test this, though.

Mike.
-- 
Move sig.


  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-05 23:41 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
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 [this message]
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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