Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 6 Oct 2001 05:15:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 6 Oct 2001 05:15:44 -0400 Received: from ncc1701.cistron.net ([195.64.68.38]:64530 "EHLO ncc1701.cistron.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 6 Oct 2001 05:15:35 -0400 From: miquels@cistron-office.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg) Subject: Re: [POT] Which journalised filesystem ? Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 09:16:04 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Cistron Internet Services B.V. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <9pmi4k$95l$1@ncc1701.cistron.net> In-Reply-To:

<9plgfn$6kq$2@ncc1701.cistron.net> <1002357150.3083.20.camel@volk.internalnet> X-Trace: ncc1701.cistron.net 1002359764 9397 195.64.65.67 (6 Oct 2001 09:16:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@cistron.nl X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test75 (Feb 13, 2001) Originator: miquels@cistron-office.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In article <1002357150.3083.20.camel@volk.internalnet>, Tonu Samuel wrote: >On Sat, 2001-10-06 at 01:41, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >> >Does that mean we can or we can't? Is there a flush write cache operation in >> >ATA? I asume there is one in SCSI? >> >> Well hdparm has a -W option with which you can turn on/off the >> write cache. If that works (and it appears it does) you should be >> able to turn write cache off, write *one* block so that the >> cache gets flushed and turn it back on. I'm not sure how to >> test this, though. > >Doesn't hdparm -W0f do the work? No, -f flushes the kernels buffer cache, not the IDE disk write cache. Mike. -- Move sig. - 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/