Re: scsi vs ide performance on fsync's

Linus Torvalds
2001-03-06T04:46:09Z

On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Jonathan Morton wrote:
>
> It's pretty clear that the IDE drive(r) is *not* waiting for the physical
> write to take place before returning control to the user program, whereas
> the SCSI drive(r) is.

This would not be unexpected.

IDE drives generally always do write buffering. I don't even know if you
_can_ turn it off. So the drive claims to have written the data as soon as
it has made the write buffer.

It's definitely not the driver, but the actual drive.

Linus