Re: vpf-10680, minor corruptions

[Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>]

Hello!

On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 11:38:15AM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote:
> >Well, normally reiserfs is caring about consistency.
> >There are two noticeable omissions, though:
> >1. if the unexpected shutdown was because of power loss and you have write 
> >cache enabled
> >  and your write reorders write requests, then it is possible invalid data 
> >  gets
> >  written to disk, before "transaction is finished" mark is written to the 
> >  drive.
> >  (there is a way to avoid this with some drives, by explicitly flushing
> >   drive cache in some cases, but this method seems to create some problems
> >   on itself. So this is not yet merged in any mainstream kernel).
> Can you provide details on this not being merged?

It was never submitted to inclusion into mainstream kernel. Hence it was never merged.
I saw that Jens Axboe (I think) posted the code for public review/verification, but that's it.

Bye,
    Oleg