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Subjectquestions regarding Journalling-FSes and w-cache reordering
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I've got a question regarding the behaviour of w-caches with ATA-harddisks:
Is a ATA-harddisk allowed to reorder the operations from in w-cache ? On one
side, this would be an opportunity to optimize head-movements (although a good
cyclical-scan drive-scheduler would gain the same if it can rely on a linear
sector-mapping), but on the other side, this would compromise the two-phase
commiting of journalling FSes and render it useless. So I doubt that reorder-
ing is allowed with ATA-HDs. Are my assumptions right ?

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