Re: [PATCH] ext3 barrier bits

[Jens Axboe]

On Sat, May 22 2004, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> > - Does the kernel tell you if your disk doesn't supoprt barriers?  ie:
> >   how does the user know if it's working or not?
> 
> ... and how do you know your disk isn't lying and ignoring the barriers?

Easy to find out, time it. Or invent more imaginative cases where you
actually test if it's there.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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