Re: raid over sata - write barrier

From: Sander
Date: Sat Feb 25 2006 - 06:23:20 EST


Szloboda Zsolt wrote (ao):
> now we have 2.6.15
> and I've mounted my ext3 file system with barrier=1 in fstab
>
> is there a way to check if the whole stack (ext3 -> md > sd) actually
> appreciates this setting?

If it doesn't work you'll see a message in dmesg about barrier being
disabled. I don't have the exact message handy right now.

Sander

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