Messages in this thread | | | Date | 14 Oct 2003 17:08:07 +0200 | Date | Tue, 14 Oct 2003 17:08:07 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ide barrier support, #2 |
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> Uh be careful! It must be WRITEBARRIER, not WRITESYNC. I think I'll kill > WRITEBARRIER and just call it WRITESYNC, it's more logical. I've added > the modified variant, thanks.
Why? The journaling just checks if the write finished and then submits the dependent writes. It doesn't care about reordering.
As long as WRITESYNC guarantees that the data hit disk when completed then it should be ok.
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