Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754207AbYCMP3p (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:29:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752436AbYCMP3g (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:29:36 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:44977 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751772AbYCMP3f (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:29:35 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Benny Amorsen Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ramback: faster than a speeding bullet Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:29:01 +0100 Message-ID: References: <200803092346.17556.phillips@phunq.net> <200803110450.19390.phillips@phunq.net> <20080311215601.GM23784@marowsky-bree.de> <200803111602.53835.phillips@phunq.net> <20080312133001.1668f40d@the-village.bc.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: hd5b9080a.c45-01-12.sta.perspektivbredband.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ey2lQQuLO6dVzyekPo0SCkCACVQ= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 563 Lines: 11 Alan Cox writes: > On the contrary - the hard disk cache is managed by the barrier logic in > the kernel, and the ordering even on failures is fairly predictable. Doesn't that require explicitly setting barrier=1 for ext3? Are there any distributions which set that by default? /Benny -- 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/