IDE write ordering ?
David Balazic
david.balazic at hermes.si
Mon Dec 1 08:33:17 UTC 2003
But isn't the default on the majority of ATA drives to have write cache
enabled ?
Also the LKML thread at
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0304.1/0450.html
is very informative.
So my question is , how can one test if the journalled FS on his disk is
actually working
as it should or is it just waste of time and giving a false sense of safety
?
Regards,
David
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> From: Alan Cox[SMTP:alan at redhat.com]
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> > The problem is , that is is hard to insure the wanted order of writes on
> ATA
> > disks.
> > This is needed for journalled/logged filesystems for example.
>
> IDE drives don't provide write order controls. End of story. Ext3 doesn't
> care about this providing the drive isn't caching writes, it just wants to
> be sure that an I/O completed before it is told it has. You control that
> with hdparm to alter write caching if you are really paranoid.
>
> Alan
>
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