Andrew - Supernews wrote:
Whether the underlying device lies about the write completion is another
matter. All current SCSI disks have WCE enabled by default, which means
that they will lie about write completion if FUA was not set in the
request, which FreeBSD never sets. (It's not possible
Andrew - Supernews [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Whether the underlying device lies about the write completion is another
matter. All current SCSI disks have WCE enabled by default, which means
that they will lie about write completion if FUA was not set in the
request, which FreeBSD never sets.
On 2006-09-23, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andrew - Supernews [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Whether the underlying device lies about the write completion is another
matter. All current SCSI disks have WCE enabled by default, which means
that they will lie about write completion if FUA was
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 01:52:02PM -0400, Jim Nasby wrote:
I thought folks might be interested in this... note in particular the
comment about linux.
...
From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: June 26, 2006 11:34:12 PM EDT
To: leo huang [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I don't believe that fsync() on Linux syncs the whole file system
either.
Indeed. I'd disregard this as coming from someone who knows much
less than he thinks.
(The most likely explanation for his results, I expect, is that FreeBSD
is trying to fsync and the disk
On Sep 22, 2006, at 15:00 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 01:52:02PM -0400, Jim Nasby wrote:
I thought folks might be interested in this... note in particular the
comment about linux.
...
From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: June 26, 2006 11:34:12 PM EDT
To:
On 2006-09-22, Jim Nasby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I thought folks might be interested in this... note in particular the
comment about linux.
I don't believe that either person in that discussion knows what they are
really talking about.
fsync() on FreeBSD does, as is required, force any
