Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 Sep 2004 19:13:00 +0200 | From | Rogier Wolff <> | Subject | Re: bug in md write barrier support? |
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On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 11:21:39PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > I2O defines cache flush very losely. It flushes the cache and returns [...] > write 1, 2, 3, 4 , 40, 41, flush cache, write 5, 6, 100
> it'll write 1,2,3,4,5,6, 40, 41, report flush cache complete.
which, if 5,6 are the metadata updates beloging to logfile writes 40,41 and the system powers down between 5 and 41 spells trouble.
Roger.
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