Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752658Ab3JYJcS (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Oct 2013 05:32:18 -0400 Received: from mail-vb0-f51.google.com ([209.85.212.51]:36246 "EHLO mail-vb0-f51.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751377Ab3JYJcR (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Oct 2013 05:32:17 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20131025022937.12623dcd.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <160824051.3072.1382685914055.JavaMail.mail@webmail07> <1814253454.3449.1382689853825.JavaMail.mail@webmail07> <20131025091842.GA28681@thunk.org> <20131025022937.12623dcd.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 10:32:16 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: Opy72cm7zev4qzYO7PtIp8EuQQU Message-ID: Subject: Re: Disabling in-memory write cache for x86-64 in Linux II From: Linus Torvalds To: Andrew Morton Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" , "Artem S. Tashkinov" , Wu Fengguang , Linux Kernel Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 737 Lines: 17 On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Apparently all this stuff isn't working as desired (and perhaps as designed) > in this case. Will take a look after a return to normalcy ;) It definitely doesn't work. I can trivially reproduce problems by just having a cheap (==slow) USB key with an ext3 filesystem, and going a git clone to it. The end result is not pretty, and that's actually not even a huge amount of data. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/