On Mon, Feb 21 2005, Greg Stark wrote: > > Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > For the longest time, only the old PATA drivers supported barrier writes > > with journalled file systems. > > What about for fsync(2)? One of the most frequent sources of data loss on the > postgres mailing list has to do with users with IDE drives where fsync returns > even though the data hasn't actually reached the disk. A power outage can > cause lost data or a corrupted database. > > Is there any progress getting fsync to use this new infrastructure so it can > actually satisfy its contract?
fsync has been working all along, since the initial barrier support for ide. only ext3 and reiserfs support it. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
