Re: 2.6.6-mm5

Pavel Machek
2004-05-27T19:16:27Z

Hi!

> - Implementation of request barriers for IDE and SCSI. The idea here is
> that a filesystem can tag an IO request as a barrier and the disk will not
> reorder writes across the barrier. It provides additional integrity
> guarantees for the journalling filesystems. The feature is enabled for
> reiserfs and ext3.

*Additional* guarantees? Is there anything we can garant
without request barriers?

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