On Wednesday 13 September 2006 23:53, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 12:04:01PM +0200, Christian Laursen wrote: > > Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > - todays desktop drives can lie about writing data. SoftUpdates relies > > > on some assumptions about when the data is physically written to > > > media, and those are not always valid today > > > > I think journaling relies on the same assumptions. > > Not gjournal, because it uses BIO_FLUSH I/O requests which flushes disk > write cache when needed.
It should be possible to use this same mechanism for SU too, right? Of course that may result in really poor write performance :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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