From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jshankar Subject: ext3 file system Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 15:13:02 -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3FF129DA@webmail.colostate.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: To: linux-fsdevel , linux-kernel List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Hello, Does the ext3 file systems have to wait for the acknowledgement of block of data written to the SCSI device before writing the next block of data. Is there a parallel I/O where the file system goes on writing the block of data without waiting for the acknowledgement. Please let me know your opinion. Thanks Jayshankar