Re: RAID controller safety

[Alan Cox]

On Gwe, 2005-12-30 at 10:58 -0800, Kenny Simpson wrote:
> So all writes would be treated as syncronous in the write-through case (no battery), making fsync
> a no-op?

fsync is never a no-op. fsync ensures material the OS is caching hits
disk drivers/disks. Barriers or write through on the disk driver ensure
that it hits the media.

The two are independant

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