Re: [PATCH] barrier patch set

From: Helge Hafting
Date: Sat Mar 20 2004 - 13:53:27 EST


On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 01:02:39AM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
[...]
> There were reports that on some drives you can't disable write cache
> and even (?) that some drives lie (WC still enabled but marked as disabled).
>
I think the simple solution of not supporting data integrity properly
on such a broken disk is perfectly ok.

Helge Hafting

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