Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261691AbVEPPCZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 May 2005 11:02:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261688AbVEPPA7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 May 2005 11:00:59 -0400 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:52447 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261676AbVEPO7R (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 May 2005 10:59:17 -0400 Subject: Re: Linux does not care for data integrity (was: Disk write cache) From: Alan Cox To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Matthias Andree , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <1116241957.6274.36.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> References: <200505151121.36243.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <20050515152956.GA25143@havoc.gtf.org> <20050516.012740.93615022.okuyamak@dd.iij4u.or.jp> <42877C1B.2030008@pobox.com> <20050516110203.GA13387@merlin.emma.line.org> <1116241957.6274.36.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1116255439.21388.45.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 15:57:22 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 550 Lines: 12 On Llu, 2005-05-16 at 12:12, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > Sure you can waive rethorics around, but the fact is that linux is > improving; there now is write barrier support for ext3 (and I assume > reiserfs) for at least IDE and iirc selected scsi too. scsi supports tagging so ext3 at least is just fine. - 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/