From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263363AbVGAOvd (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jul 2005 10:51:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263364AbVGAOvd (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jul 2005 10:51:33 -0400 Received: from vsmtp12.tin.it ([212.216.176.206]:7297 "EHLO vsmtp12.tin.it") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263363AbVGAOva (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jul 2005 10:51:30 -0400 Message-ID: <2442.192.167.206.189.1120229488.squirrel@new.host.name> In-Reply-To: <20050701131950.GA15180@ime.usp.br> References: <20050629001847.GB850@frodo> <200506290453.HAA14576@raad.intranet> <556815.441dd7d1ebc32b4a80e049e0ddca5d18e872c6e8a722b2aefa7525e9504533049d801014.ANY@taniwha.stupidest.org> <42C4FC14.7070402@slaphack.com> <20050701092412.GD2243@suse.de> <20050701131950.GA15180@ime.usp.br> Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 16:51:28 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: XFS corruption during power-blackout From: "Luigi Genoni" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.5.1 [CVS] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org problem can be that most disk become too slow to be usable if cache is disabled. On Fri, July 1, 2005 15:19, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Jul 01 2005, Jens Axboe wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 01 2005, David Masover wrote: >> >>> Not always possible. Some disks lie and leave caching on anyway. >>> >> >> And the same (and others) disks will not honor a flush anyways. >> Moral of that story - avoid bad hardware. >> > > But how does the end-user know what hardware is "good hardware"? Which > vendors don't lie (or, at least, lie less than others) regarding HDs? > > > Thanks, Rogério Brito. > > > -- > Rogério Brito : rbrito@ime.usp.br : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito > Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de > Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ > - > 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/ > >