Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263507AbUCTSv6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Mar 2004 13:51:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263508AbUCTSv5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Mar 2004 13:51:57 -0500 Received: from hermine.idb.hist.no ([158.38.50.15]:58634 "HELO hermine.idb.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263507AbUCTSvz (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Mar 2004 13:51:55 -0500 Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 19:52:09 +0100 To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: Matthias Andree , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] barrier patch set Message-ID: <20040320185209.GB2016@hh.idb.hist.no> References: <20040319153554.GC2933@suse.de> <405B2127.8090705@pobox.com> <20040319230136.GC7161@merlin.emma.line.org> <200403200102.39716.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200403200102.39716.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Helge Hafting Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 603 Lines: 15 On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 01:02:39AM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: [...] > There were reports that on some drives you can't disable write cache > and even (?) that some drives lie (WC still enabled but marked as disabled). > I think the simple solution of not supporting data integrity properly on such a broken disk is perfectly ok. Helge Hafting - 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/