Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752317Ab3JZLco (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Oct 2013 07:32:44 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:59674 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751558Ab3JZLcn (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Oct 2013 07:32:43 -0400 Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 13:32:38 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton , "Theodore Ts'o" , "Artem S. Tashkinov" , Wu Fengguang , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Disabling in-memory write cache for x86-64 in Linux II Message-ID: <20131026113238.GC1792@Nokia-N900> References: <160824051.3072.1382685914055.JavaMail.mail@webmail07> <1814253454.3449.1382689853825.JavaMail.mail@webmail07> <20131025091842.GA28681@thunk.org> <20131025022937.12623dcd.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1041 Lines: 24 On Fri 2013-10-25 10:32:16, Linus Torvalds wrote: > 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. Hmm, I'd expect the result to be "dead USB key". Putting ext3 on cheap flash device normally just kills the devic :-(. -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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/