From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263335AbVGANU6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jul 2005 09:20:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263336AbVGANU6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jul 2005 09:20:58 -0400 Received: from smtpout4.uol.com.br ([200.221.4.195]:52733 "EHLO smtp.uol.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263335AbVGANU4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jul 2005 09:20:56 -0400 Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 10:19:50 -0300 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rog=E9rio?= Brito To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: XFS corruption during power-blackout Message-ID: <20050701131950.GA15180@ime.usp.br> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20050629001847.GB850@frodo> <200506290453.HAA14576@raad.intranet> <556815.441dd7d1ebc32b4a80e049e0ddca5d18e872c6e8a722b2aefa7525e9504533049d801014.ANY@taniwha.stupidest.org> <42C4FC14.7070402@slaphack.com> <20050701092412.GD2243@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20050701092412.GD2243@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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/