From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Mason Subject: [PATCH 0/2] enable write barriers by default Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 09:51:40 -0400 Message-ID: <20060804135140.GA942@watt.suse.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: akpm@osdl.org, reiserfs-dev@namesys.com Return-path: Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:15035 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161152AbWHDNwD (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Aug 2006 09:52:03 -0400 To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Hello everyone, ReiserFS and ext3 have had code to support forcing cache flushes for a while, but it has been off by default. These two patches enable it by default on both filesystems. Disabling barriers can be done with: mount -o barrier=none in reiser mount -o barrier=0 in ext3 -chris