Re: Write cache and surface error behaviour

2014-07-28 Thread Douglas Gilbert
On 14-07-28 04:57 PM, Jeremy Linton wrote: On 7/20/2014 4:54 PM, joystick wrote: So what happens when the disk tries to write it to the platter and discovers that there is a media error on that sector? (suppose relocation does not happen ; maybe sectors exhausted) Does Linux receive the write er

Re: Write cache and surface error behaviour

2014-07-28 Thread Jeremy Linton
On 7/20/2014 4:54 PM, joystick wrote: > So what happens when the disk tries to write it to the platter and > discovers that there is a media error on that sector? (suppose relocation > does not happen ; maybe sectors exhausted) Does Linux receive the write > error upon the next flush it issues?

Re: Write cache and surface error behaviour

2014-07-28 Thread Dale R. Worley
> From: joystick > > I don't really understand this disk cache thing. > Suppose a disk with write cache enabled of writeback type: Linux > receives a write completed notification (a message from the disk) when > the data has reached the cache of the disk. Correct? At that point it is > not con

Re: Write cache and surface error behaviour

2014-07-21 Thread Dale R. Worley
> From: joystick > > I don't really understand this disk cache thing. > Suppose a disk with write cache enabled of writeback type: Linux > receives a write completed notification (a message from the disk) when > the data has reached the cache of the disk. Correct? At that point it is > not con

Write cache and surface error behaviour

2014-07-20 Thread joystick
Hello list, I don't really understand this disk cache thing. Suppose a disk with write cache enabled of writeback type: Linux receives a write completed notification (a message from the disk) when the data has reached the cache of the disk. Correct? At that point it is not considered an in-flig