rom what I understand from some googling, disk write barriers are
specially crafted i/o requests (within the vfs/driver infrastructure)
that are acted on by block drivers as following: all requests before a
barrier request will be completed before any request that follows the
barrier is executed. Th
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
Hi folks,
I'd like to know something about the (possible) existence of disk
write-barriers in FreeBSD. I often read the advice that one should
disable write-back caching on modern disks in order to make softupdates
actually work. Unfortunately, disabling the write-back cache on typical
ATA
