From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: gene.heskett@verizon.net
Cc: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.6 "IDE cache-flush at shutdown fixes"
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 22:28:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1084220917.2996.26.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200405100732.10363.gene.heskett@verizon.net>
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> I note the drive is the same model here too, Rene.
>
> The question remains however, is our data in danger?
You have a disk with an active write back cache but that doesn't support
the flush-cache IDE command. That's obviously a bad combo ;)
The other fixes in 2.6.6 ought to make it a bit less dangerous than
before, eg the power off at shutdown WILL flush the cache.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-10 20:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-10 9:20 Rene Herman
2004-05-10 11:32 ` Gene Heskett
2004-05-10 12:04 ` Rene Herman
2004-05-10 20:28 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2004-05-10 19:25 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-05-10 21:13 ` Rene Herman
2004-05-10 21:52 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-05-11 4:56 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-11 5:17 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-11 11:24 ` Rene Herman
[not found] ` <200405111537.23535.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl>
[not found] ` <40A1073E.3030605@keyaccess.nl>
2004-05-11 19:06 ` Rene Herman
[not found] ` <200405120236.00085.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl>
2004-05-12 14:44 ` Rene Herman
2004-05-11 21:22 ` Mike Houston
2004-05-11 22:05 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-05-14 3:26 ` Pavel Machek
2004-05-15 0:53 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-15 0:59 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-15 1:05 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-05-15 5:53 ` Herbert Xu
2004-05-15 6:16 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-17 22:13 ` Greg KH
2004-05-17 22:55 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-14 3:25 ` Pavel Machek
2004-05-11 11:24 ` Rene Herman
2004-05-11 12:56 ` Craig Bradney
2004-05-11 15:51 ` Athanasius
2004-05-11 16:10 ` dobrev
2004-05-12 18:07 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-05-12 18:45 ` dobrev
2004-05-13 0:24 ` Patrick Wildi
2004-05-13 9:55 ` dobrev
2004-05-10 21:59 ` Rene Herman
2004-05-10 23:36 ` Mike Houston
2004-05-14 21:49 ` scsi shutdown flush, journaled fses Tom Vier
[not found] <fa.jr282gn.1ni2t37@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.cmd38j8.1tgg9ro@ifi.uio.no>
2004-05-12 6:09 ` Linux 2.6.6 "IDE cache-flush at shutdown fixes" Robert Hancock
2004-05-12 18:52 ` Eric D. Mudama
2004-05-12 19:55 ` Rene Herman
2004-05-12 21:05 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-05-12 22:27 ` Rene Herman
2004-05-12 21:28 ` Gene Heskett
2004-05-13 17:41 ` Eric D. Mudama
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