Re: [PATCH] scsi/sata write barrier support

[Jens Axboe]

On Tue, Feb 22 2005, Greg Stark wrote:
> 
> 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?

Since 2.6.9.

> 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.

Only works on ext3 and reiserfs currently.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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