Re: Ext3 behavior on power failure

[Jan Kara <jack suse cz>]

On Wed 28-03-07 10:17:33, armangau_philippe emc com wrote:
> In my case the disk cache is not a  problem - We use an emc disk array
> the write cache is protected - 
> Once the data has made over the disk array we can assume it is safe - 
  Then if you are able to reproduce the situation that not all data
is written after fsync(); poweroff; that is a bug worth reporting..

								Honza
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Anthony Kazos Jr. [mailto:jakj j-a-k-j com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 9:17 AM
> To: Jan Kara
> Cc: wheeler, richard; armangau, philippe; ext3-users redhat com;
> linux-ext4 vger kernel org; csar stanford edu
> Subject: Re: Ext3 behavior on power failure
> 
> >  If you fsync() your data, you are guaranteed that also your data are
> > safely on disk when fsync returns. So what is the question here?
> 
> Pardon a newbie's intrusion, but I do know this isn't true. There is a 
> window of possible loss because of the multitude of layers of caching, 
> especially within the drive itself. Unless there is a
> super_duper_fsync() 
> that is able to actually poll the hardware and get a confirmation that
> the 
> internal buffers are purged?
> 
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Jan Kara <jack suse cz>
SuSE CR Labs