From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
Cc: 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: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 08:13:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050222071340.GC2835@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87acpxurwf.fsf@stark.xeocode.com>
On Mon, Feb 21 2005, Greg Stark wrote:
>
> Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> writes:
>
> > For the longest time, only the old PATA drivers supported barrier writes
> > with journalled file systems.
>
> What about for fsync(2)? One of the most frequent sources of data loss on the
> postgres mailing list has to do with users with IDE drives where fsync returns
> even though the data hasn't actually reached the disk. A power outage can
> cause lost data or a corrupted database.
>
> Is there any progress getting fsync to use this new infrastructure so it can
> actually satisfy its contract?
fsync has been working all along, since the initial barrier support for
ide. only ext3 and reiserfs support it.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-22 7:13 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 [this message]
2005-02-22 17:06 ` Greg Stark
2005-03-01 8:47 ` Jens Axboe
2005-03-01 15:55 ` Greg Stark
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