On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 11:41 -0700, Ben Chobot wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> Of course. But if you can't reliably flush the OS buffers (because, say, 
> you're using LVM so fsync() doesn't work), then you can't say what 
> actually has made it to the safety of the raid card.

Good point. So the next question of course is, does EVMS do it right?

http://evms.sourceforge.net/

This is actually a pretty significant issue. 

Joshua D. Drake


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