Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

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> On the contrary - the hard disk cache is managed by the barrier logic in
> the kernel, and the ordering even on failures is fairly predictable.

Doesn't that require explicitly setting barrier=1 for ext3? Are there
any distributions which set that by default?


/Benny


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