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From: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi/sata write barrier support
Date: 22 Feb 2005 12:06:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874qg4v81q.fsf@stark.xeocode.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050222071340.GC2835@suse.de>


Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> writes:

> fsync has been working all along, since the initial barrier support for
> ide. only ext3 and reiserfs support it.

Really? That's huge news. Since what kernel version(s) is that?

What about a non-journaled fs, or at least a meta-data-only-journaled fs?
Journaled FS's don't mix well with transaction based databases since they're
basically doing their own journaling anyways.

-- 
greg


  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-22 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-27 12:02 [PATCH] scsi/sata write barrier support Jens Axboe
2005-01-27 15:08 ` [PATCH] scsi/sata write barrier support #2 Jens Axboe
2005-01-27 23:02   ` Jeff Garzik
2005-01-27 22:42 ` [PATCH] scsi/sata write barrier support Doug Maxey
2005-01-27 23:00   ` Jeff Garzik
2005-01-28  6:54     ` Jens Axboe
2005-01-28  8:10       ` Jeff Garzik
2005-01-28  8:18         ` Jens Axboe
2005-01-28  9:38           ` Jens Axboe
2005-01-28 13:06             ` James Bottomley
2005-01-28 13:10               ` Jens Axboe
2005-01-28 13:12             ` James Bottomley
2005-01-28  6:58   ` Jens Axboe
2005-02-22  4:42 ` Greg Stark
2005-02-22  7:13   ` Jens Axboe
2005-02-22 17:06     ` Greg Stark [this message]
2005-03-01  8:47       ` Jens Axboe
2005-03-01 15:55         ` Greg Stark

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