Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030215AbWBYLZl (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Feb 2006 06:25:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030224AbWBYLZl (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Feb 2006 06:25:41 -0500 Received: from ookhoi.xs4all.nl ([213.84.114.66]:46314 "EHLO favonius.humilis.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030220AbWBYLZl (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Feb 2006 06:25:41 -0500 Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 12:25:26 +0100 From: Sander To: Szloboda Zsolt Cc: Neil Brown , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: raid over sata - write barrier Message-ID: <20060225112526.GA28780@favonius> Reply-To: sander@humilis.net References: <17317.57895.187139.651739@cse.unsw.edu.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Uptime: 10:11:08 up 25 days, 2:30, 28 users, load average: 21.31, 18.79, 17.76 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 657 Lines: 20 Szloboda Zsolt wrote (ao): > now we have 2.6.15 > and I've mounted my ext3 file system with barrier=1 in fstab > > is there a way to check if the whole stack (ext3 -> md > sd) actually > appreciates this setting? If it doesn't work you'll see a message in dmesg about barrier being disabled. I don't have the exact message handy right now. Sander -- Humilis IT Services and Solutions http://www.humilis.net - 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/