IDE write ordering ?

[David Balazic]

Would fsck ( or maybe some other tool? ) detect if this problem had happened
?
( that is , consistency problems due to re-ordered writes around the moment
of failure, like
power-outage )

Regards,
David

> ----------
> From: 	Alan Cox[SMTP:alan at redhat.com]
> Reply To: 	fedora-test-list at redhat.com
> Sent: 	2. december 2003 13:44
> To: 	fedora-test-list at redhat.com
> Subject: 	Re: IDE write ordering ?
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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