Re: disk write barriers

2005-07-07 Thread Matthias Buelow
Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Do you have a background in OS design? It affects the answer, because >you seem to be referring to access barriers and disk cache flushes >interchangeably, which doesn't make sense, especially on >multiprocessor systems. >From what I understand from so

Re: disk write barriers

2005-07-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Matthias Buelow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now my question is: Does FreeBSD also implements these barriers, or an > equivalent mechanism, as claimed on the above URL? Do you have a background in OS design? It affects the answer, because you seem to be referring to access barriers and disk cac