Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ramback: faster than a speeding bullet

From: Benny Amorsen
Date: Thu Mar 13 2008 - 11:29:58 EST


Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On the contrary - the hard disk cache is managed by the barrier logic in
> the kernel, and the ordering even on failures is fairly predictable.

Doesn't that require explicitly setting barrier=1 for ext3? Are there
any distributions which set that by default?


/Benny


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