> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Cox [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 9:58 AM
> To: Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
> Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List; [email protected];
> [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Question] Does the kernel ignore errors writng to disk?
>
> On Mer, 2005-04-27 at 19:40, [email protected] wrote:
> > It looks like the OS/filesystem (ext2/3 and reiserfs) does
> not wait for for a successful completion. Is this assumption correct?
>
> Of course it doesn't. At 250 ops/second for a decent disk no
> OS waits for completions, all batch and asynchronously queue
> I/O. See man fsync and also O_DIRECT if you need specific "to
> disk" support. If you do that be aware that you must also
> turn write caching off on the IDE disk. I've repeatedly asked
> the "maintainer" of the IDE layer to do this automatically
> but gave up bothering long ago. Without that setting users
> are playing with fire quite honestly.
>
> The alternative with latest 2.6 stuff is to turn on Jens
> Axboe's barrier work which seems to give better performance
> on a drive new enough to have cache flush operations.
>
> Alan
Thanks, Alan. I'll try Jens barrier.
>
>
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