Re: SPAM: Re: XFS corruption during power-blackout

[Chris Wedgwood]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 01:11:03AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:

> Don't know if the code hasn't bit rotted away and it also was a bit
> dumb. It was definitely there at some point.

It did rot away sadly but someone (speak up!) was working on a newer
version of this I just don't know how much time they've had to work on
this recently.

> But then a lot of ATA disks and SCSI don't support barriers.  Or at
> least the IDE barrier tests fails on several of my machines.

IDE has no barriers.  I thought the kernel was aware of this and
flushed when in those cases?  Does that not work?
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