Re: [PATCH] scsi/sata write barrier support

[Greg Stark]

Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxx> writes:

> fsync has been working all along, since the initial barrier support for
> ide. only ext3 and reiserfs support it.

Really? That's huge news. Since what kernel version(s) is that?

What about a non-journaled fs, or at least a meta-data-only-journaled fs?
Journaled FS's don't mix well with transaction based databases since they're
basically doing their own journaling anyways.

-- 
greg

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