Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754074AbYLVIvA (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:51:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753191AbYLVIuw (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:50:52 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:48870 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752933AbYLVIuv (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:50:51 -0500 Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:50:47 -0500 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Pavel Machek Cc: Justin Piszcz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com, Alan Piszcz Subject: Re: Intel X25-E running Linux using XFS Message-ID: <20081222085047.GA24795@infradead.org> References: <20081212185803.GE11974@elf.ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081212185803.GE11974@elf.ucw.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 717 Lines: 15 On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 07:58:03PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > Actually I'd like to know... how does it behave during powerfails > while it is being written to? I've done various powerfail tests with and X25-M and as expect it behaves perfectly fine as long as you either disable the write cache or use barriers. The default ext3 setup without barriers corrupts the filesystem left, right and center, but that's the same as other recent disk drives with large caches. -- 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/