Re: bug in md write barrier support?

[Rogier Wolff]

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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