Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:42:50 -0700 | From | <> | Subject | Re: raw aio write guarantee |
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On 9/28/05, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote: > On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 01:56:05 PDT, iodophlymiaelo@gmail.com said: > > > I was asking what a user-application can do to prevent data loss, not > > an application-user. > > Right. However, if you actually care about the distinction between "made it > to the disk cache" and "made it to the platter", those are things you'll > want to address - in particular, if you have one of the evil disk drives > I mentioned, there's very little a user application can do to work around it. >
Erm, is the hardware problem really as great as you're implying? Have you personally encountered any bad drives made by reputable brands? Mostly I've only heard only of people crying wolf and then realizing it was a problem with their reasoning or with the assumption that fsync() actually works properly on kernel X, where X doesn't even have to be that ancient a version of linux ;-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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