From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Fri, 30 Mar 2007 06:24:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.lichtvoll.de (mondschein.lichtvoll.de [194.150.191.11]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id l2UDO06p013024 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 06:24:01 -0700 Received: from localhost (dslb-084-056-071-160.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.56.71.160]) by mail.lichtvoll.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id A639F5AD2C for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:23:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Martin Steigerwald Subject: write barrier and USB devices Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:23:57 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200703301523.58027.Martin@lichtvoll.de> Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Hello! Does the usb mass storage driver support write barriers? I think it does, since XFS doesn't complain: --------------------------------------------------------------------- shambala:~> mount -o barrier /dev/sdb2 /mnt/daten (note barrier is default since 2.6.17, but anyway) shambala:~> tail -f /var/log/syslog [...] Mar 30 15:11:59 shambala kernel: XFS mounting filesystem sdb2 Mar 30 15:11:59 shambala kernel: Ending clean XFS mount for filesystem: sdb2 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Regards, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7