On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:16:01 +0900, Tejun Heo said:
> Don't those thingies usually have NV cache or backed by battery such
> that ORDERED_DRAIN is enough?
Probably *most* do, but do you really want to bet the user's data on it?
> The problem is that the interface between the host and a storage de
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:39:41 EDT, Ric Wheeler said:
> All of the high end arrays have non-volatile cache (read, on power loss, it
> is a
> promise that it will get all of your data out to permanent storage). You
> don't
> need to ask this kind of array to drain the cache. In fact, it might jus
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:44:21 EDT, Ric Wheeler said:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:39:41 EDT, Ric Wheeler said:
> >
> >> All of the high end arrays have non-volatile cache (read, on power loss,
> >> it is a
> >> promise that it will get all of your data out to permanent st
