On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 08:32:18PM -0500, Neal H. Walfield wrote: > > Disk hardware guarantees that a sector write can always be completed > > even if the power goes out partway through. That means that writing a > > single sector *is* always atomic. > > The size of a single sector does not necessarily equal the size of of > a disk block.
And, what about reordering of writes in the device driver? Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann The Hurd http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de/
