Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:15:26 +0100
From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
To: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>,
       Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>,
       Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] barrier patch set
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On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Helge Hafting wrote:

> 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.

At least Linux should warn the user that his data is heading for doom.

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Matthias Andree

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