Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750698AbXBMOvd (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:51:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750704AbXBMOvd (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:51:33 -0500 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:48381 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750698AbXBMOvc (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:51:32 -0500 Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:03:19 +0000 From: Alan To: Theodore Tso Cc: "Martin A. Fink" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: SATA-performance: Linux vs. FreeBSD Message-ID: <20070213150319.04164761@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20070213144702.GD8670@thunk.org> References: <200702121502.17130.fink@mpe.mpg.de> <200702131034.22639.fink@mpe.mpg.de> <20070213112527.59eaa504@localhost.localdomain> <200702131332.34899.fink@mpe.mpg.de> <20070213144702.GD8670@thunk.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.10.4; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 625 Lines: 13 > data actually did make it to the media, I wouldn't necessary assume > that it has. Given that it sounds like you really care about this, > I'd suggest that you explicitly testing this before making > assumptions. FreeBSD 6.1 appears to get it right for some subsets of devices so it seems a reasonable assumption at first glance - I did actually look the BSD bits up to check. - 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/