Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 Oct 2013 13:32:38 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Disabling in-memory write cache for x86-64 in Linux II |
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On Fri 2013-10-25 10:32:16, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Andrew Morton > <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > > > Apparently all this stuff isn't working as desired (and perhaps as designed) > > in this case. Will take a look after a return to normalcy ;) > > It definitely doesn't work. I can trivially reproduce problems by just > having a cheap (==slow) USB key with an ext3 filesystem, and going a > git clone to it. The end result is not pretty, and that's actually not > even a huge amount of data.
Hmm, I'd expect the result to be "dead USB key". Putting ext3 on cheap flash device normally just kills the devic :-(.
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