Re: ext2 + -osync: not as easy as it seems

[Alan Cox]

> Plus it has a nasty behaviour where it reverts to -W1 if disk
> connection is momentarily lost. (If you unplug/replug SATA disk, linux
> will happily rediscover and use it, but -W0 was already forgotten at
> that point, right?)

If you momentarily lose power your disk state isn't defined anyway. If
you do that with the SATA code it should treat it the same as a scsi disk
swap so it'll get a new device and the old fs will go down.
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