Re: Disk write cache

Andrew Morton
2005-05-15T20:48:34Z

Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> wrote:
>
> However since
> I suppose a lot of disks flush everything pending on a flush cache
> command it still works assuming the file systems write the
> data to disk in fsync before syncing the journal. I don't know
> if they do that.

ext3 does, in data=journal and data=ordered modes.