From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Autif Khan <autif.mlist@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How can I flush all writes before yanking the power cable?
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 15:58:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130207205803.GB28084@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADzUK1LnJ7nhgMf-6nigxfnaa0MY16NOwpAkuy4qEy7E=wG7hg@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 02:37:02PM -0500, Autif Khan wrote:
>
> That was precisely my ignorance. I did not know about barrier. Adding
> it during mount ro and remount rw seems to have fixed these issues.
You also didn't say what file system you were using. Was it ext4?
ext3? ext2? What kernel version? On modern kernels barrier is
enabled by default for both ext3 and ext4.
Regards,
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-07 20:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-07 16:43 How can I flush all writes before yanking the power cable? Autif Khan
2013-02-07 18:12 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-02-07 19:37 ` Autif Khan
2013-02-07 20:58 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2013-02-07 21:28 ` Autif Khan
2013-02-07 21:29 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-05-16 18:31 ` Autif Khan
2013-05-16 19:03 ` Theodore Ts'o
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