On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:20:22PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > It's a generic Linux problem, not an ext3-specific issue. Until > recently, the Linux block layer had no concept of a sync operation. > Linux basically assumed that all writes were synchronous and ordered, > which they are not if your hardware has (non-transparent) write > caches. It did not disable write caching by default, either.
For quite some time, ext3 in mainline and most distro's defaulted to nobarrier (barrier=0) --- the only exception to this I'm aware of was SLES. Mainline switched to having barriers on by default, I assume the distro's have or will follow. Some other filesystems (XFS for example) have had barriers enabled by default. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
