On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > Those drives should be blacklisted and rejected as soon as someone tries > > to mount those pieces rw. Either the drive can make guarantees when a > > write to permanent storage has COMPLETED (either by switching off the > > cache or by a flush operation) or it belongs ripped out of the boxes and > > stuffed down the throat of the idiot who built it. > > In which case you can choose between ancient ST-506 drives and SCSI
Sorry, a disk drive which makes no guarantees even after a flush, does not belong in my boxen. I'd return it as broken the first day I figured it did lazy write-back caching. No file system can be safe on such disks. -- Matthias Andree "Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
