Re: 2.2.0 wishlist

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 16 Jun 1996 15:21:59 +0100 (BST)


> One of the things wished for EXT2 is extra robustness,
> which can be achieved with writing the meta-data, and
> data in correct sequential order to the disk.

Nope. A modern caching IDE drive will not always honour the physical write order
you give it blocks.