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From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: write barrier patches for 2.4.21
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 18:56:04 +0400
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To: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Cc: Tom Vier <tmv@comcast.net>, Reiserfs List <reiserfs-list@namesys.com>

Hello!

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 02:10:03AM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote:
> >There was a discussion about that on Kernel Summit 2003 and general 
> >opinion was that SCSI
> >does not need the WB stuff at all as it does the correct thing anyway.
> define "correct thing".


As I understood it, they do not do reordering or do it in a way
that does not make this reordering visible after crash.

Bye,
    Oleg