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Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 20:55:08 -0300 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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Subject: Re: [POT] Which journalised filesystem ?
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On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> We (as in Linux) should make sure that we explicitly tell the disk when
> we need it to flush its disk buffers. We don't do that right, and
> because of _our_ problems some people claim that writeback caching is
> evil and bad.

Does this even work right for IDE ?

Rik
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