Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 09:02:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 09:02:27 -0400 Received: from stine.vestdata.no ([195.204.68.10]:22506 "EHLO stine.vestdata.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 09:02:23 -0400 Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 15:01:45 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ragnar_Kj=F8rstad?= To: Dave Jones Cc: Rik van Riel , "sebastien.cabaniols" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [POT] Which journalised filesystem ? Message-ID: <20011003150145.D8709@vestdata.no> In-Reply-To:

Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from davej@suse.de on Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 02:54:17PM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 02:54:17PM +0200, Dave Jones wrote: > Alan mentioned this was something to do with the IBM hard disk > having strange write-cache properties that confuse ext3. > I'm not sure if this has been fixed or not yet, but its enough > to make me think twice about trying it on the vaio for a while. If a disk is doing write-back caching, it's likely to break all journaling filesystem and anything else that relies on write ordering. -- Ragnar Kj?rstad Big Storage - 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/