Re: 2.6.0-test11 data loss

[Hans Reiser]

Eric D. Mudama wrote:

> It seems to me that the problem occurred at a higher system level than
> the disk, and disabling the write cache on the drive (besides being a
> *HUGE* performance loser) will only make the window for failure
> smaller, not eliminate it entirely.
You should only use write caching in kernels where write cache flushing 
is supported. Chris, which ones are those, could you remind us?

--
Hans


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