On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:38:03PM +0100, David Balazic wrote: > So to have a j-fs to really be fsck safe, I have to turn off write caching ? If you want to be really paranoid then yes for current ATA. The next generation specification allows certain I/O to bypass the caches so at that point it can become nicer The same applies for some databases if you are paranoid too