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From: "Rogério Brito" <rbrito@ime.usp.br>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: XFS corruption during power-blackout
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 10:19:50 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050701131950.GA15180@ime.usp.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050701092412.GD2243@suse.de>

On Jul 01 2005, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 01 2005, David Masover wrote:
> > Not always possible.  Some disks lie and leave caching on anyway.
> 
> And the same (and others) disks will not honor a flush anyways.
> Moral of that story - avoid bad hardware.

But how does the end-user know what hardware is "good hardware"? Which
vendors don't lie (or, at least, lie less than others) regarding HDs?


Thanks, Rogério Brito.

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-01 13:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20050629001847.GB850@frodo>
2005-06-29  4:53 ` XFS corruption during power-blackout Al Boldi
2005-06-29 16:38   ` Christian Rice
2005-06-29 17:02   ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-06-29 17:56     ` Steve Lord
2005-06-29 20:56       ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-06-29 21:10       ` Nathan Scott
2005-07-01  8:17     ` David Masover
2005-07-01  9:24       ` Jens Axboe
2005-07-01 13:19         ` Rogério Brito [this message]
2005-07-01 13:57           ` Ric Wheeler
2005-07-01 14:51           ` Luigi Genoni
2005-07-01 14:56             ` Jens Axboe
2005-07-01 14:05         ` Al Boldi
2005-07-01 16:35           ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-07-05 15:49           ` Sonny Rao
2005-07-05 17:25             ` Al Boldi
2005-07-05 18:10               ` Sonny Rao
2005-07-05 19:24                 ` Dieter Nützel
2005-07-06  4:24                 ` Al Boldi
2005-07-06  4:46                   ` Nathan Scott
2005-07-16  7:02 Al Boldi

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