Re: [POT] Which journalised filesystem ?

Ragnar Kjørstad
2001-10-03T13:02:37Z

On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 02:54:17PM +0200, Dave Jones wrote:
> Alan mentioned this was something to do with the IBM hard disk
> having strange write-cache properties that confuse ext3.
> I'm not sure if this has been fixed or not yet, but its enough
> to make me think twice about trying it on the vaio for a while.

If a disk is doing write-back caching, it's likely to break all
journaling filesystem and anything else that relies on write ordering.

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Ragnar Kjørstad
Big Storage