From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
"Artem S. Tashkinov" <t.artem@lycos.com>,
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Disabling in-memory write cache for x86-64 in Linux II
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 13:32:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131026113238.GC1792@Nokia-N900> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFzq4-wsErRO56gW6gj3Q91QtvvaGQPdUV2JkSs-B1PCAQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri 2013-10-25 10:32:16, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Andrew Morton
> <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > Apparently all this stuff isn't working as desired (and perhaps as designed)
> > in this case. Will take a look after a return to normalcy ;)
>
> It definitely doesn't work. I can trivially reproduce problems by just
> having a cheap (==slow) USB key with an ext3 filesystem, and going a
> git clone to it. The end result is not pretty, and that's actually not
> even a huge amount of data.
Hmm, I'd expect the result to be "dead USB key". Putting
ext3 on cheap flash device normally just kills the devic :-(.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-26 11:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-25 7:25 Disabling in-memory write cache for x86-64 in Linux II Artem S. Tashkinov
2013-10-25 7:25 ` Artem S. Tashkinov
2013-10-25 8:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-10-25 8:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-10-25 8:30 ` Artem S. Tashkinov
2013-10-25 8:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-10-25 9:15 ` Karl Kiniger
2013-10-29 20:30 ` Jan Kara
2013-10-29 20:43 ` Andrew Morton
2013-10-29 21:30 ` Jan Kara
2013-10-29 21:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-10-31 14:26 ` Karl Kiniger
2013-11-01 14:25 ` Maxim Patlasov
2013-11-01 14:31 ` [PATCH] mm: add strictlimit knob Maxim Patlasov
2013-11-01 14:31 ` Maxim Patlasov
2013-11-04 22:01 ` Andrew Morton
2013-11-04 22:01 ` Andrew Morton
2013-11-06 14:30 ` Maxim Patlasov
2013-11-06 14:30 ` Maxim Patlasov
2013-11-06 15:05 ` [PATCH] mm: add strictlimit knob -v2 Maxim Patlasov
2013-11-06 15:05 ` Maxim Patlasov
2013-11-07 12:26 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2013-11-07 12:26 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2013-11-22 23:45 ` Andrew Morton
2013-11-22 23:45 ` Andrew Morton
2013-10-25 11:28 ` Disabling in-memory write cache for x86-64 in Linux II David Lang
2013-10-25 9:18 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-10-25 9:29 ` Andrew Morton
2013-10-25 9:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-10-26 11:32 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2013-10-26 20:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-10-29 20:57 ` Jan Kara
2013-10-29 21:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-10-29 22:13 ` Jan Kara
2013-10-29 22:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-11-01 17:22 ` Fengguang Wu
2013-11-04 12:19 ` Pavel Machek
2013-11-04 12:26 ` Pavel Machek
2013-10-30 12:01 ` Mel Gorman
2013-11-19 17:17 ` Rob Landley
2013-11-20 20:52 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2013-10-25 22:37 ` Fengguang Wu
2013-10-25 23:05 ` Fengguang Wu
2013-10-25 23:37 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-10-29 20:40 ` Jan Kara
2013-10-30 10:07 ` Artem S. Tashkinov
2013-10-30 15:12 ` Jan Kara
2013-11-05 0:50 ` Andreas Dilger
2013-11-05 0:50 ` Andreas Dilger
2013-11-05 4:12 ` Dave Chinner
2013-11-05 4:12 ` Dave Chinner
2013-11-05 4:12 ` Dave Chinner
2013-11-07 13:48 ` Jan Kara
2013-11-07 13:48 ` Jan Kara
2013-11-07 13:48 ` Jan Kara
2013-11-11 3:22 ` Dave Chinner
2013-11-11 3:22 ` Dave Chinner
2013-11-11 3:22 ` Dave Chinner
2013-11-11 19:31 ` Jan Kara
2013-11-11 19:31 ` Jan Kara
2013-11-05 6:32 ` Figo.zhang
2013-10-25 10:49 ` NeilBrown
2013-10-25 11:26 ` David Lang
2013-10-25 11:26 ` David Lang
2013-10-25 18:26 ` Artem S. Tashkinov
2013-10-25 18:26 ` Artem S. Tashkinov
2013-10-25 19:40 ` Diego Calleja
2013-10-25 19:40 ` Diego Calleja
2013-10-25 23:32 ` Fengguang Wu
2013-10-25 23:32 ` Fengguang Wu
2013-10-25 23:32 ` Fengguang Wu
2013-11-15 15:48 ` Diego Calleja
2013-11-15 15:48 ` Diego Calleja
2013-10-25 20:43 ` NeilBrown
2013-10-25 21:03 ` Artem S. Tashkinov
2013-10-25 21:03 ` Artem S. Tashkinov
2013-10-25 22:11 ` NeilBrown
2013-11-05 1:40 ` Figo.zhang
2013-11-05 1:47 ` David Lang
2013-11-05 1:47 ` David Lang
2013-11-05 2:08 ` NeilBrown
2013-10-29 20:49 ` Jan Kara
2013-10-29 20:49 ` Jan Kara
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