Re: XFS corruption during power-blackout

Rogério Brito
2005-07-01T13:20:58Z

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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